not by design but by result, kind of representing every era of the band's career to some degree and a whole lot of things we hadn't touched on before so I felt good about the self titled. Was there anything you were trying to convey by not giving it a title? Well I was halfway anticipating a bit of a fall out for even doing a three piece record, doing a record without Pepper. We're on really good terms with Pepper and his absence is certainly felt. And I think we did a really good job of coming up with the songs and the ideas but people are conservative and they're used to CoC being one thing to them so when you change that up there's gonna be some complaining and we just wanted to make the statement that this is also CoC and it's legitimate. This was something that came before and that's something the casual observer might not be aware of. And no disrespect but we do what we want to and we feel entitled to that. So its kind of a big two middle fingers to the idea that we shouldn't do that. [laughs] Basically. Also, we hadn't done it [self titling an album] and the name of the band is compelling and interesting and it's kinda cool to just focus on that. Briefly. It's a bit provocative. Even if it only were to generate the question "What? Were you not imaginative enough to think of a