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«Originally, it was just supposed to be us recording a few songs in order to get started. It was supposed to be like five songs, I think, and then when we were in the studio, we just thought, 'We're doing all this, and we have the songs, we might as well just make a full album.' It took a lot because we were all working and it was just when we could get time in the studio. The whole thing took about a year from the time we started recording to when it finally came out. The actual recording time probably was two weeks.»

«It definitely evolved. It was kind of good to have the time in between to look at each version. 'Heavy Metal' we recorded, I think, like three times. Alec, in particular, was sick of that song. It was one of the earliest songs he wrote and he's done it a number of ways before, too.»

«We definitely got some offers from labels and we talked to a lot of people. They were offering advances and a lot of support and it was definitely an option, but we'd already come pretty far on our own.»

«We've all got lots of different influences. We never sit down to write a song and say, 'This is going to be a Brian Eno type of song,' or 'This is a Bob Dylan song.' It's totally little bits of lots of different stuff that come together and hopefully it's something coming out of us that we're creating.»