That music was made with composers, arrangers, and session musicians, so to try to put that format in a band where four or five people are doing everything isn't accurate." As for the band's songwriting process, it varies from song to song. "We're definitely moving towards more collaborations, just after being together so long. It's fun for me to write all the parts for every instrument, because I'm a control freak like that, but it's not tenable," says Hernandez. "Just like we have a variety of sounds, we have a variety of processes. We're constantly trying to rethink the way we go about it." Bassford says that all the songs have one thing in common: "they all change in major structural ways throughout the writing. We'll be almost done with one and then we'll overhaul it." At their recent gigs at CMJ, the band underwent its own structural change, as regular drummer Julian Fader broke his foot less than a week before the festival. Thankfully, Jordyn Blakely of New York punks Butter the Children was familiar with the songs and was able to learn them in time for CMJ. As Hernandez says, "Basically, she's been killing it." "If Chuck Berry came on the scene now, with Chuck Berry having already happened, it wouldn't have the same import." Clearly, expanding to two drummers isn't in the cards. "We'd have to lose a member or get a bigger van. We'd need a bus." Still, Hernandez and Bassford were obviously excited at the