That session was very much kept in the moment. I remember looking over at Jim playing drums on 'Disappeared,' joyfully bashing away, and it harbored that same exuberance of starting your first band: that moment in the garage where things take flight, and the energy and happiness just lead you onward.
Making this album brought me back to the same feelings I had when I first started a band, or first started playing music in general-there's a real simplicity and excitement to playing with folks you don't normally play with. The spirit of play is alive on this whole thing.
It was amazing to have a ringside seat for the way Jim and M make records. Jim's outside-the-box knack for soul and harmony and M's sense of space and songcraft were so inspiring and invaluable to me then, and continue to be to this day.
Debut records have a freedom that can't be matched, because there's no history to work from. I just hear the four of us following wherever the songs seem to be leading us.
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