Inside/Absent

VINYL FORMAT. Joel Peterson wrote this record without any input from fellow band members. "I think it was because of that separation from other people's input that the writing style shifted. I found myself keeping things a little more elemental; steering away from programming, opting for sparser percussion, and keeping instrumentation as minimal as songs could take. The lyrics became a lot more direct and the vocal style kind of followed suit. It just didn't seem appropriate to layer these things that were said in pretty bare, straight-forward terms with a ton of effects...I wanted to at least make myself feel something through music, and it seemed that the best way to do that was just to be as real and honest as possible."