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<\/a>After getting the studio time booked, the members of the band found themselves snowed in once they got there; the recording sessions ended up being heavily disrupted by the storm.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the first day we completely lost power for the whole day, so we tried to set everything up more or less in the dark. There are no windows in the studio; we just had iPhones and candles to set up as much as we could,\u201d says Ubels. \u201cWe actually had to abandon it and hope that the next day the power would be back, and it did come back, but there was more snow. Every day was really long; it\u2019s a long drive out there and we had to dig our way in and out and all that. In the end, I think we did something that we are very proud of, and I feel like it\u2019s a step forward in a little bit more of a clear direction. I think the EP focuses our sound more and works better as a coherent piece.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ubels\u2019 musical taste stretches across a broad and diverse array of genres. And while he takes influence from all these styles, he says that the band\u2019s songs don\u2019t always end up as originally envisioned.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes our songs end up fairly different than their initial incarnation,\u201d says Ubels. \u201cThe centrepiece of the record, \u2018Tangerine,\u2019 is more of an acoustic, almost Neil Young-like ballad, and it turned into this distorted, heavy, fuzzed-out thing that we did. It\u2019s hard to pin down exactly where stuff comes from; sometimes it\u2019ll just be a particular phrase that will set off associations that I will try to massage into something that makes sense to me. I think on this record there is a fair amount of self discovery, which ties into what this record means for us and what it represents.\u201d<\/p>\n