Aussie dance duo Jagwar Ma are looking forward to a date at the Art School tomorrow night – but they’re even more excited about where they might end up partying afterwards.

The twosome, who gig as a trio, have just released second album Every Now And Then.

Like their first album Howlin’ it’s a combination of dance, psychedelia and rock, suggesting they could well follow fellow Aussies Tame Impala to stardom, and bringing the record out on the road is something that guitarist and synths man Jono Ma is enthused by.

“We’ve had some incredible nights in Glasgow, both at gigs and afterwards,” he says.

“We’ve had some pretty fun nights where folk have had empties, is that what you call it? We’ve ended up going back to them and having a party. We’re looking forward to a few more of those.

“We also got JD Twitch from Optimo to remix O B 1(the first single from the new album), which was cool, because although I’ve never been to the Sub Club I know all about its reputation and the cultural impact there.

“Our bassist Jack’s girlfriend is Glaswegian and is there regularly, so maybe we’ll all come there to work sometime.”

That’s not just idle chat, because Jono and his partner in crime Gabriel Winterfield have already shown a fondness for moving around. After writing some of the record back home in Sydney, they returned to the studio they used in France for Howlin’, before heading to London, where they currently live, to polish the album off.

While some of the album process was the same as Howlin’, there’s a couple of key differences. Originally the duo intended to be a studio project, and they had barely gigged before making the first album. This time around they started work fresh from touring around the world, including a run of arena shows with Tame Impala.

“We were basically playing half a set of new songs, and then refining them after that,” explains Jono.

“It was a proper tour, so we were road-testing the new material on literally thousands of people. The whole thing was amazing because they (Tame Impala) are really good friends of ours. I remember seeing them play a pub on Bondi Beach to about 100 people and thinking they were great, and seeing them go from that to stadium shows is really weird.”

Jono reckons there’s some other connections between the groups too.

“I guess we all come from a similar headspace,” he says.

“There’s a cynical and self-deprecating humour to it all, as well as a yearning for something profound amidst the songs. Tame have that balance in their music, and Gab, Jack and myself really enjoy that too – everything’s a big joke, but everything about the band means a lot to us, too.”

It’s been a winning balance for the group so far, given they’ve supported the likes of Foals and the XX, as well as being praised by Noel Gallagher. That makes all their hard work worthwhile, as they headed to an old sunflower farm converted into a studio in the south of France and shut themselves away from everything.

“You do one grocery shop a week and that’s it,” says Jono.

“You need to focus on the music, and then obviously we did Howlin’ there so there was a degree of comfort and familiarity. There was some cabin fever, and that’s why the record was completed in London because it was a reaction to the distorted perspective about the music that can develop when you are not interacting with any other humans.

“There’s a little bit of wi-fi if you go outside and raise your phone in just the right way, but essentially we were off the grid.”

Even before their French arrival they’d enjoyed getting back to nature when they wrote the album. Perhaps a little too close to nature…

“The one thing we all miss about Australia is that connection to nature, because there’s so much space,” adds Jono.

“We did a writing trip up to a friend’s cabin in a national park, and while we were up there it was like being in the jungle.

“We were catching fish to eat and having a primal existence, and then one of the days we were fishing we saw a massive shark in the wild. That was something that stuck with us because it was incredibly powerful, although it’s not like the shark was a muse for the record or anything like that!”

Jagwar Ma, Art School, Thursday, £13.50, 7pm