After more than three years of non stop touring, Cut Copy is heading back to Australia to perform at the fourth annual Rollercoaster concert.

It's been a long time between albums so Cut Copy is definitely keen to get home and show off their latest release In Ghost Colours.

On The Barrier had a chat to guitarist Tim Hoey about the trials and tribulations of getting a record together and a few new tricks they've learnt.

Critics have remarked that the new album is a step in the right direction for the band who is displaying a much more mature sound.

Hoey said the music they were creating now was much closer to the sound they were trying to achieve with the first album.

"We're always searching to go to something new sonically with the arrangement of our music," he said.

"This time we've gathered more gear and more tricks.

"We've kind of learnt a lot more about the process (of recording)."

Hoey said the band was "pretty exhausted" when they began writing material for the new album.

"We were really excited use our touring to gather ideas and absorb things that were going on in different countries," he said.

"We were looking to be a lot more of a ‘70s middle of the road' band, to kind of sound a bit like California pop with lush harmonies like the Beach Boys and the Eagles."

To get into the headspace to create the kind of music Cut Copy were after they listened to psychedelic pop music.

"We miraculously got ideas of quite melancholy lyrics contrasted against more uplifting chords," Hoey explained.

The opening song on the album Feel the Love was said to be a good indication of where the album was heading which strong emphasis on the song writing and arrangement of the song.

"It makes a statement of where we were at musically," Hoey said.

"It really captures all aspects of band's organic instrumentation and studio produced elements."

The completion of In Ghost Colours was announced in 2007; however the band delayed the Australian release until March 22, 2008 so it would correlate with the international release of the album.

"We wrote (In Ghost Colours) really quickly in under six months but we just had to wait for studio time," Hoey said.

"It had been so long since we wrote it that we just wanted to get it out already."

Cut Copy is making their way back to Australia soon and while they are only in the country for two weeks they're putting in a performance at the fourth Rollercoaster Festival.

Hoey said he hadn't had time to properly check out who Cut Copy are playing alongside but that he was really looking forward to it all the same.

Cut Copy will be appearing on the Rollercoaster main stage with the likes of Gyroscope, The Living End, our very own Tame Impala and a bunch of other favourites.

Tickets are on sale now.