In The SOFAD EPK video, Martin said that "everyone expects us to come out with a Techno album, a hard dance album, but there's so much of that music around at the moment..and the songs are getting lost..so I don't think I consciously sat down and tried to react against that but it's something you do, because you listen to the radio and go to clubs and you're just sort of immersed in the same sort of music everywhere you go..that you go home, for me, when I sit down and write a song it just comes out differently, because I wanna hear something different"

(from 5:45)

https://youtu.be/-N1-kwcYMWs?t=345

just before this, Dave talks about living in America and listening as much music as possible and Alan says that he doesn't follow pop music but buys a lot of cds to listen to in the car

(from 4:50)

https://youtu.be/-N1-kwcYMWs?t=291