We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way.
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I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.
I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try to write songs like Neil Finn, or we would try to write songs like Ray Davies, or we would try to write songs like Glenn Tilbrook.
We became the songs we wrote.
We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I think we want to inspire other people as well, so that's what we'll try to do through future songs.
Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship.
If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
We wanted to sit down and conceptually work out songs.
When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.
Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making.
We just wanted to write a bunch of songs that we thought were good songs.