How did making Still Night, Still Light compare with making The Bird of Music (QRO review)?
AH: It was a completely different experience! Our first two, we had worked with our manager – who was actually our producer first, but we liked him so much, we asked him to be our manager. On this one, we hired a producer, Tom Monahan, who is amazing. He’s a little bit older – he’s not ninety or anything, but he’s older than we are, and he has a lot of experience. It was very interesting to see what he brought to this, as far as sounds, and delivery, really pushing us to give our best vocal performances. Also, we did Bird of Music and Verses of Comfort [Assurance and Salvation] while we still had day jobs. Bird of Music took almost a year to record. We were touring in the middle, a little bit, but we would just go every day, after work, and go work on our record at [manager/then-producer] Rod [Sherwood’s] house. Still Night, Still Light we dedicated a chunk of time. It was still pretty piecemeal – we recorded some of it in Erika’s apartment, some of it in our practice space, we recorde
