When White Lies first started making music, CDs were still the norm, Spotify was still four years from starting up and Napster had only been ripped apart 18 months earlier.

Now, years later and a decade on from the release of their critically acclaimed debut album, the London three-piece are heading out on tour again in support of their fifth studio record, Five.

Having started the band when Charles Cave and Jack Lawrence-Brown were both still at school, lead singer Harry McVeigh joined to complete the line-up in 2004 ahead of what would become a career in the music business.

But all of these years, world tours and even a number one album later, the band still count themselves lucky that they can continue making music, and that fans still want to hear it.

Frontman Harry said: “It’s always great to see people admire your work. But we haven’t thought as much as we should about what comes next.

“This is ten years now since the first record and we are beginning to feel nostalgic and about how we have changed.

“It has been great I guess, it’s not something you really talk about too often. Even after we found some success it never really sunk in that this was a career.

“Growing up you are told to avoid fickle industries. To still be here after a decade is incredible and I hope we can continue on.

“Otherwise, I don’t know what we’d do. Finding a real job would be a challenge.”

After months of work, Five will be release on February 1, just days into the band’s six month run of shows.

Although there have been difficulties in replicating the critical and commercial success of their debut record, To Lose My Life..., there is a feeling that Five has taken many who have heard it by surprise, with the band excited to share their labour of love.

The White Lies singer added: “Five really came together the same way the last three records have come together. Charles comes to my West London flat and we treat it like a nine to five job, listening to music and drinking coffee. Getting some inspiration then seeing where we can go with it.

“Often we spend a week or so writing and getting absolutely nothing. It can be really disparaging, disheartening. Then come the moments of inspiration until you are ready to record.

“What we do at home we take into the studio with us, around a quarter of the stuff that makes the album has been recorded in my house.

“The only difference being that I was in San Francisco for much of it. I have lived there for the past two and a half years and have been looking to move back, my wife had lived over there. But last year we were so busy and we didn’t fancy having to spend eight months apart.

“But we are really pleased, we feel like we have written some really good songs and are pulling in a new direction.

“Now we just want to get it out there. I think the change was a deliberate thing. We have always kind of done that on records, songs get pulled in different directions and when we record we try to make them more coherent.

“We just tried to get a palate and a vibe and speak to it. We attach ourselves to that. This time we did less of that, we just wanted all of the songs to sound as wacky as they could. That was a different mindset.”

As part of the album’s supporting tour, White Lies will play a headline show in Glasgow on Tuesday, February 1, at the QMU.

The show will be one of the first stops on a lengthy tour which will take the band as far afield as the USA and Mexico.

Despite the thousands of miles between them, White Lies’ frontman believes the fanbase and atmosphere at shows from Glasgow to Tijuana are not that different.

And for those looking to hear some of the band’s older material, there may a surprise later this year to mark the band’s last ten years.

“We are maybe thinking about pulling together a show for a full album. We were thinking about that for the end of the year,” said Harry.

He added: “The tour will be a mix of feelings.

“Those first three months will be great, still incorporating new songs and playing old ones. When you start these are always changing.

“We really enjoy that, it is very exciting. But six months in we might have a different answer.

“I think in Glasgow, most bands know it is a legendary place to play.

“The crowds are well known around the world for going crazy and the shows are always exciting, you don’t know what is about to kick off.

“This year Mexico is high up on the list of highlights for us. It is somewhere were are starting to do well in.

“In much the same way as Glasgow, the crowds are unpredictable, it always feels like a real event.”