What are some of the differences between recording a full-length like Mirrored and the previous EPs?
The EPs were such a guerilla mission. The band started organically, with Ian, Ty and myself playing a show and a lot of different ideas passing through the band. We used to have girls making vocal noises before we realized that wasn’t practical for us. Once we stopped that, we really refined the songs to make a recording and get our name out there and tour and grow rather than be a New York band that plays the Tonic every now again. For the EPs, Our friend Emery Daubin, who’s produced the next Travis album and works with Patti Smith a lot, was working at a studio and we’d sneak in at night to try and record from midnight to 8am, then move our stuff to the corner and whoever was really paying for the space would use it. It was never ending, and it took so long to get it mixed and so on. We were still trying to figure out how we worked as a band—it was organic. On Mirrored, all of us gelled together as musicians and as friends. A friend of mine had just opened a studio in Pawtucket, Rhod
