“So this this is a sort of a love letter to minimalism in a way. “Some of the objectives on ‘Starcatcher’ was to really focus on the individual instruments being played as opposed to something like ’The Battle at Garden’s Gate,’ the previous record, which I think is very, very layered,” says Jake Kiszka. This time Dave Cobb produced - as he has done for Chris Stapleton and Brandi Carlile - and he took the guys back to their roots as a live band, recording all the time to capture lightning in a bottle. Their last album, “The Battle at Garden’s Gate,” had more elaborate arrangements, layers and chord progressions, lots of instrumental sections and strings under the guidance of super-producer Greg Kurstin. The final product is a soaring, cinematic anthem, with Josh Kiszka wailing some of his best lyrics to date: “I’ve caught the wind in a kite of dreams/In a flight of seams/Like freedom sewn/And the people roar/And the people soar.” “I always find that the longer the song is that we’ve got sitting on a shelf, the better it turns out in the end,” says Jake Kiszka. It kicked around in various forms over the years. The seeds were first planted in 2016, with Sam supplying the original chords for the chorus and Josh a melody. “Sacred the Thread” was one of the first songs the bandmates agreed had to be on the record and which has hit No. “I think that our ability to work with each other just keeps becoming more and more elevated and that keeps evolving.” “This is definitely some of my favorite material and some of my favorite songs that we’ve written together,” says Sam Kiszka.
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