What can fans expect from Ursa Major?
We wrote this album on the road in front of audiences; we tried songs out in front of them. I think the sound of this album has a big reverberant, confident sound that comes from that feeling that we ve had on the road. We always want to maintain that as part of the sound of making the record. What is your writing process like? What I do is I tend to write down ideas that occur to me. Then they oftentimes take on some cohesion. The other thing I ll do is I ll have an idea and that idea will come in a rhythm. I m a drummer by training, so a lot of what I do is rhythmically based. That s my primary mode of organizing some kind of emotion or provocation into a piece that makes that emotion travel. I read that for this album you had more trouble thinking of lyrics than in the past. Yeah. I still have trouble with some of the songs and the lyrics because I think that the reason for our shocking longevity is the lyrics. If I don t feel the idea, the governing ghost of that concept inside the
