This past summer finally saw the release of Carina Round's third album, the Glen Ballard-produced 'Slow Motion Addict.' The album serves as two firsts for the British singer-songwriter: 1) working with a named producer, and 2) sharing the writing duties.

"We'd get into the studio at "a couple o'clock," as [Glen] liked to say, have some wild, strange, cryptic conversation about something then we'd just start to play," Round told Spinner following her four-song Interface performance. "I'm kind of a music Nazi and he's the complete opposite. I actually co-wrote for this record -- not with Glen -- but with different other people and with my band members. The whole experience was quite a challenge for me. I'm not the kind of person that can go into a meeting, shake hands, sit down and start writing songs with somebody."

Meanwhile, Round just wrapped a fall jaunt with Annie Lennox, and has already begun writing new material for an 'Addict' follow-up, including the delicate should've-been, 'Backseat of Your Mind.' "I don't want to change it up too much," she said of the song, which she wrote with 'Come To You' collaborator Gary Go. "Some people hear it and say, 'You definitely need something else. It needs to grow, or some big drums and blah blah blah.' They want it to become something more spectacular. I think it's something spectacular in itself. It's not the song that needs to burst into the room, drunk, and exclaim its presence. It should just creep up to you."