hear your stuff kind of changes things but as far as writing, I don't think it did so much. I think we are who we are and the actual writing process is still the same. More the thought of how to put together the album, maybe is a little different. CONFRONT: And you guys have incorporated a lot of different sounds with all the woodwinds and the brass instruments this time, how was that experience? ANDREW: The first record, we were just really economical on how we recorded it.  We did it in a way that was very similar to some of the pop stuff that we do. We try to enter the studio and exit the studio with a complete song every day. In this process, since we knew we were making an album, I was in Sweden for six months straight this time so I don't think we tried to finish the songs immediately or tried to limit the instrumentation of the songs to what was available to us in the studio. We envisioned something happening that involved calling a bunch of other players and we just scheduled the time to make it happen. This was different from the first album where we tried to complete everything with what we had in the room. So there are great things about both, I just think it's cool that this album sounds a bit different than the first album but it still has our musicality. CONFRONT: It's great to have