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“I didn’t want to over-produce the record,” he explains.

“It was very honest and a real ‘band in a room’ kind of record.”

Jones — who formed the band in the Welsh village of Cwmaman in 1992 along with bassist Richard and drummer Stuart Cable, who died in 2010 — admits he has been described as a “workaholic” for never having taken a big chunk of time out from work in his entire career.

“For me, being creative actually makes me feel relaxed and when I’m not doing something creative I kind of then become more restless in my mind,” he says. “When I have something to focus my energy on, I’ve got a very big desire and energy to make albums and create things and mainly to learn things. “That’s why I guess... when I was getting a bit jaded last year, maybe I was going through a period of time that I wasn’t learning anymore, I wasn’t growing anymore.

“I wasn’t fed up with actually being on stage, I wasn’t fed up with making records.

“What I was starting to tire of was the 16, 17 hours a day, waking up in hotels or travelling and wasting time.

“For me it’s always going to be about growth and expanding what I can do, and on paper it looks like every 15 to 18 months there’s a new album and a tour and stuff going on.

“And many times I’ve been labelled a workaholic or this, that and the other. But to me it’s kind of, well, I take the kids to school, I go to the studio, I like writing, and I feel more at peace doing that.

“Yes, it can wear you out when you’re travelling around, don’t get me wrong,” he adds.

“That’s the hardest part of the whole thing. But the actual process of the creating is the bit that I need to do.”

It may be one of the toughest parts of the job, but the band is set to head out on another major arena tour next year to support the album, which Jones admits he wants to be as successful as their previous releases.

Since their big breakthrough in the late 1990s, Stereophonics — who have released a string of popular anthemic alt-rock singles over the decades including Dakota, Have A Nice Day, May