I’m sure because it was the last record the band made, a lot of the songs take you back to being in Atlanta. I remember recording "The Everlasting Muse." I was stuck by myself in a room with a mandolin and there was a lot of free time. My main memory of the process, in all honestly, was going record shopping. We'd go in the morning to record and Ben would say, "Alright, that's it." And he would go on and do his thing. It was almost like being on holiday or something. I love it but I don't feel totally connected to it in a way. I'm happy and all that but looking back I guess I felt like it was being a guest star on your own record. I embraced it and it was a good process but I'm not sure it's something I'd want to do again. I felt so out of control of the whole process which in certain ways was also a good thing.

Do you see your opinion of it changing in five years?

It’s already changing. Interestingly, when we made it, and within the sequencing and stuff, there was a sense that this was a really long record as it’s nearly an hour long. When I was driving around one time listening to it, I thought, “Oh, this works. It’s an epic record. It is long but it’s good and it works.” But during the summer we were traveling to America and there it was on the in-flight entertainment system, and I decided to listen to it. About five tracks into it, I thought, “This is our best album and this is brilliant.” But after the sixth song I thought, “Oh no. This is too long.” I actually later had to stop listening to it because it wasn’t quite right. I think we could’ve made it more concise. I think overall our earlier albums work better that way because we were still thinking in terms of vinyl and we only have 40 minutes to work with now I think with some of our later records you could argue that they’re a track long.