What was a problem that you ran into? (Q&A)

Joachim Speidel:

@josh_04 asks, "What was a problem that we ran into?" And I think–

Stuart Brookes:

So many problems.

Joachim:

Yeah, like the world has basically just gone to shit in the last couple months. But you know, before that, I think one of the main ones was, we went to a couple writing camps, where like the LA trip we even did for this album. And our whole approach to production and writing changed. So we were basically going like section by section, doing like kind of make everything–

Stuart:

Focusing on these really micro decisions, when what we learned was to focus on the macro.

Joachim:

Focus on laying the ideas down, the themes, and then we started working on tracks from the theme, like what we wanted to get across in the lyrics.

Stuart:

Yeah, what kind of sounds we wanna use that tie into that theme.

Joachim:

Yeah.

Stuart:

And then, ties everything together.

Joachim:

That was a problem because a lot of the tracks that we started before, we had to rework them with this minimalistic approach.