White Lies scored big with their dark debut album, “To Lose My Life …” Although fans and critics hailed the album — which soared to No. 1 on the U.K. charts — the trio was not about to be locked into one musical mood. When the band completed touring, they took a few months off and then brought new ideas for their next album, the recently released “Ritual,” to the table.

“It was definitely a much different approach, in the way we wanted to write and record the record,” said Jack Brown, who, along with childhood friends Harry McVeigh and Charles Cave, founded White Lies. “We had the ideas of songs in our heads, and we quickly went into the studio to flesh them out.”