Tell us a memory or story around the debut album in 2005?

There was a lot of time finding a company to print the CDs and figuring out what we needed to get to whom, and I think I ended up picking up the first batch in Queens myself because it would save us money on shipping. And then we just piled them all up in Tyler's apartment, and it just felt so good to finally have this finished product.

Thinking back, we really didn't have too much of a plan for what to do next. It was just so great to have this thing that we had made that we were really proud of. It had taken over a year from when the recordings started to get to the finished product, so it was great to have made it. We slowly started bringing them around and going in to record stores and asking if they would carry our CD. And each step along the way was really exciting, but in this way that was hard to notice at the time, because we were too busy trying to figure out what then next step would be. It was sort of just this constant blur towards whatever was next.

Do you have any Insound specific memories that you would like to share with the world?

Insound memory for 2005 is definitely bringing cases of our actual CDs over to the Insound office. By the time we started bring stuff over there, we had already become really really busy dealing with all of the mailings ourselves. Tyler and I ended up doing most of it as I recall. I was handling a lot of the individual orders, along with the t-shirt orders, and Tyler was dealing with most of the bigger orders to the indie stores. So we were both making lots of trips to the post office. The post office workers would get mad at me for bringing so much stuff every time. I eventually figured out the perfect time to get there when it wasn't too busy. Even then though, I’m fairly sure that just about all of the Brooklyn post office are terrible! And I would just be so tired from carrying everything over there each time.

So once we started delivering boxes to Insound, the first couple times it was cool because it was easy enough - just take a couple of boxes over, but it was once we just stopped mailing stuff ourselves and let Insound do it, it was such a relief! We were all so happy to pass that duty off....

How would you say Insound has impacted indie music throughout the past 10 years?

Insound has just been a great resource. It was one of the earlier websites to carry all this kind of music. I can't remember very well, but I think I remember there just not being very many places to find a lot of indie music, and Insound always had everything. I remember I would often go out to buy a CD in a store and try a couple of places and I would inevitably not find it, and then I would just go home and find it at Insound.