I wanted to make an album where every song is kind of interacting - where you can't tell what's the string arrangement and what's the song. I guess t….

'Unbelievers' was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that's one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in th….

Now that that album's done [TModern Vampires of the City], I have time to revisit things that I was working on earlier, previous to it. I actually fo….

Throughout college I was getting better and better at making recordings, producing songs, making different kinds of beats. I was starting to learn th….

I think summer, at least as I've experienced it, can be joyous but it can also be tough emotionally. Physically, it can be hot to the point of being ….

I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song..

I would say I was a little bit outgoing, a little bit shy. I was definitely much more shy than my brother. I was young - age six. I was really drawn ….

It took me some time to join the various streams of making music that was technically good and making music that made me feel good..

I did take guitar lessons as a teenager, though, and I started to teach myself how to play everything I could play on the guitar on piano, so I had a….

I like the idea that a song can be about a romantic relationship, but it can also about a relationship to your career, or a relationship to your city….

One of the things that we talked about was this idea of 'Memento Mori' - like the reminder of our own mortality - and so we were sort of trying to ex….

There's a line in the Arthur Russell documentary where his partner talks about how Arthur is really interested in process. He never felt like anythin….

We've always said that our band is pretty much an open system and there's no rules governing anything... so who knows what the future will hold?.

At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Hale….

Obviously it always takes longer to finish an album than you think it will. That's always going to be the case. Everything takes longer than you thin….

I took one piano lesson and hated it and then didn't take any piano lessons until I was 18..

I guess I have some kind of a visceral connection with drums. I'm looking to create music that people can react to viscerally, and people will respon….

I love working with Angel Deradoorian, she's a joy to work with. She's fab at singing and she has a real... she has an understanding that's both inte….

We thought there was also something that was humorous but at the same time powerful and deep about naming the album, 'Modern Vampires Of The City'..

As far as the lyrics go, I think I was negotiating a moment in my life where I didn't feel happy. I think I had some existential frustration and I wa….

I was lucky to have a guitar teacher who asked me what I wanted to learn. I brought in "High & Dry" by Radiohead and "Mr. Jones" by Counting Crows an….