A Dream About Love

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I think that 1) we were all sort of acknowledging that we wanted to try something different with the band, and we also had started doing a stripped-down set for a VIP show that we would do before our show every night where we'd play songs for an intimate group of people. We started doing this thing where it was still an electric set, with electronic drums, and everything was held back and chilled out a little bit more, in a way where I wasn't having to sing over super loud shit all the time. And it gave everything a different texture, having the synths and stuff involved, and we just sort of started playing around with the idea of writing new stuff in that way. At the time, it seemed like it was an easy way to record. We could have a recording session in the back of a bus with an electronic drum kit as opposed to a huge drum kit and have some synths as opposed to having a bunch of amps. Yeah I would say it started on the last album cycle, where we had some demos and as we were building them, I think we went more towards songs that sounded like older songs, and abandoned the ones that were more of a departure. On the last writing cycle, I feel like we got really close to some of this shit, and I don't know if we had the confidence in ourselves to be able to do what we wanted. And it really came down to: the people who keep the band going and support the band have made it abundantly clear over the years that stuff that we like as a group collectively and that we enjoy playing -- they'll recognize that one way or the other, and it reflects in what people want to hear, and it sort of makes this circular thing happen between us and them. I think we wanted to be a little bit more daring and try to just make stuff that we all really like, and we didn't really think about whether or not it fit with our catalog. We wanted to all be as hyped to play it as we were to listen to our new favorite band. We took this mindset of, if anybody had any beef with something, or if somebody was like "yeah I'm just not feeling this," we cut it. We only ended up working with songs that everybody in the band was so excited about, and I think that required a lot of rigorous honesty, and a lot of decluttering. It was a cool experiment. I don't know if I'll ever agree to do it again.

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