I wrote this record backwards. I challenged myself to work in the complete opposite order from how I normally put songs together. Usually, I compose the music and then painstakingly find lyrics that fit into the melody. This time I started with words. I wrote quite a bit of them. And after many, many edits I finally created the music beds for them to lie on. It was freeing. It’s good to push yourself out of your comfort zone and I am more than pleased with the results.

I also wanted to tip my hat to my formative music years. Bands like Depeche Mode, the Cure and New Order were just as much a part of my life as the Stones, Sly Stone, and Dylan were at that time. Even though playing guitar is my full-time job eight days a week (and I do play quite a bit of it on this release), it was quite refreshing to play in sounds I never thought were accessible when I was a teenager. This whole process was like being a kid again.