#misc: interview

Host: Well, it's awesome, and you can tell he loves what he does. I mean, I know he's kind of, a little bit of a prop up with Turnstile and Code Orange, and stuff like that, but it's really great to see him work with you guys as well, and the record sounds fantastic, of course. When you're putting together things like that, of course, everybody talked about how busy they are, is there, when you're preparing music, do you think about, "Okay, this is something that I want to do for L.S. Dunes", or do you have to be in a particular state of mind? Do you compartmentalize that stuff? How does writing work when you have so many different things going on?

Frank: There's no formula, you know? I mean, kind of, the universe will tell you where you need to be, and if you listen to that well enough, you kind of figure out the path. But I think, often times, and this, I don't know, is something that works for me. If I have different projects going, if I hit a wall or I create a block on one, I'II jump to the other projects and, sometimes, that'll open up some doors for me. But, as of right now, I feel like, you know, this is my main creative band, so there's, no, it's not a hard decision, you know?

Anthony: I don't know how it is for everybody, but I, kind of, need to be in a mode of, like, okay, everything I'm doing right now is going to go down to Dunes, like, everything I'm working on is Dunes related, so there's too much stuff going on at all times, so I need to make sure that there's only one thing on my plate to focus on.

Tucker: Besides my family, this is all I think about, so everything is an L.S. Dunes song to me.

Anthony: Yeah, I agree.

Host: Love it. You know, we talked a little bit about how when the band kind of came together, it was a little bit pieces, sometimes you're at different places, putting all this stuff together for some, at least, demo tracks for the album. Now that you're together, you're on the road, do you find yourself coming up with new music and writing together, or...?

Anthony: It's crazy, it's crazy. We had a day-off the other day, Frank and I sat down to figure out a cover song, didn't figure out the cover song, wrote a new idea, and we sort of have been practicing this thing where we get to a point where we have, like, a couple different parts, and a couple melody ideas, and we're able to, like, bank it, put it away and, like, when we're in the mode to work on something further, we can go back to it that way. It's not, like, beaten into the ground, you know, but this is the most creative situation I've ever been involved in with people who are just so anxious... I used the wrong word, but just ready and prepared to always make new music, that's all excited to make new music.

Host: That's awesome! So, I heard Frank tease a second album already, we're talking about, perhaps, future projects in the works?

Frank: Oh yeah, yeah, we have a lot of demos already, probably more songs than a record.

Travis: You know, just sitting around on this tour, we have countless song ideas.

Frank: It's a spaghetti incident.

Tim: Spaghetti sandwich incident.

Host: I am definitely looking forward to more stuff and we would love to hear one more song, if you got any.

Frank: Alright.

Anthony: I'm going to throw up... Okay.