Our vocal harmonies started to feel like a cop-out: all group-singing, all the time.

I was listening to this Ngozi Family record, 45,000 Volts, and it's mostly this guy singing, and then for the choruses, he's doubled. And it's not even harmonized, it's all the same note! And I'm like, "Oh, that sounds epic." I don't know, it's just one of those arbitrary taste things.

We're going out to play all the places where people might want to see us, because next time we might not just think about hitting every market or how we can make the most money.

Our vocal harmonies started to feel like a cop-out: all group-singing, all the time.

I do read the records reviews but more out of curiosity than anything else, I feel like we know what we want to do next time regardless of how this one is received, good or bad, so it won't really make much of a difference, which wasn't the case on the first album, where both the positive and negative criticism or reactions did catch us off guard and inevitably colored the creation of this one.

Being in Portland is cool. I have some good friends here and the general feeling might be a little more welcoming.

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.