Your self-titled album (The Thing) released last year was recorded live as a band to tape, which is a process not many bands do these days. What was the writing process for the album? Do you write songs as a group, does somebody bring an idea to a jam session, or do you start jamming and take it from there?
We wrote and recorded the album in a little over a month. Had some ideas going into the session and just hashed them out, all together. What was really nice about writing that record was that there were no screens; no visual guide to arranging or anything. This allowed us to really sink in and be “in it”.
When you’re writing, how do you decide when a song is finished?
If we feel good on it, get a good night’s sleep, and still are feeling good on it the next day. Trust yourself! Who know what you’ll dig in the future, but if you dig it now then that’s that.
You’re from New York, which has such an incredible rock lineage, and you can hear this in your sound. What bands from the past NYC scene have inspired you? What are your favourite current bands that drive you?
Television, LCD Soundsystem, The Strokes from the past. Geese are doing brilliant things.