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Almost every record I go into, I’m hoping that it feels like a whole unit and they always have sonically. I think they’ve always felt like the songs all fit together in a nice sequence, and thematically they jump around a bit. This one, the songs tie together really nice in my mind. It has sort of a nice cinematic ride through the whole thing.

The interesting thing about this record is there’s more electric on it but there are also more songs that are just voice and acoustic than any other record I’ve done.

That’s something JP and I discussed. He kind of wanted to make it not 4 to 6 feet and glassy. He wanted to make it a couple of 1-foots or longboard days and a couple of 20-foot, not quite toeing in, but big paddling days. And some days it’s stormy. Try and make it a little more dynamic.

Recording on tape was one of the major things ‘cause it affects the actual way that it’s sounding but it also limits what we can do in the studio. We’ve got 24 tracks and we can’t just keep pushing ‘file’ or ‘new track’ on Pro Tools. A lot of the stuff that bugged me, right after we do a take a week later I would forget about it completely and I wouldn’t even hear that anymore. It changes the sound in that way I think.

The studio, in being that it runs off solar power, and all the wood that we use in here was reclaimed lumber, it just feels better. I mean it feels nice every time I look at that just to think about our Australian friend Luke coming here, stripping that wood and building those things. It feels more homemade anyways, and just doing as many things as you can low-impact, that’s one thing we did before.

Then once you’re in here, like I was saying before, it feels better to be in here, but it’s not like we make music because we have a solar powered studio, we make music ‘cause there’s things to talk about in life and there’s songs you want to write, so we get in here and we do that. Things run just normal and it’s great, but it sure feels good to be able tell kids …and promote that you can decide that you want to do something different. Don’t think you just have to become [part of] this pattern that somebody else has set up for you. So even if it’s not environmental stuff, but showing people that you can go off and do your own thing.

I’ll meet a lot of people after the show that’ll say. “I got your first record when I was 14 years old,” and it’s such a weird trip to think that someone can stick with it and not grow out of it. It’s kind of fun to have a relationship with listeners and vice versa where you can keep writing the songs for every point in that person’s life. Hopefully there will be people who enjoy having that parallel thing happening with the song.

Going into it, it was pretty comfortable. I didn’t feel like I had anything to prove. Everything’s got its peaks and valleys. To me this thing has been going on for a while [and] each record has kind of surprised me that it keeps going in that direction. I feel like what an amazing ride it was to get to keep putting out records. So if I can keep on doing this on some level, I’ll be pretty happy.