We were naive enough to think that we could actually have a successful pop career. Eventually we gave up on that. This record's about just making music. That's how we came into the process. Papas Fritas' reappraisal of their identity has led to few striking new developments, the most obvious being the music itself.
Buildings marks the band's decisive move away from their endearingly scattershot indie-pop clatter.
The group's geeky charm is still intact, but from a production standpoint the new disc is a plush, streamlined affair that, with few exceptions, is more cream than fizz. With this record, I wanted to make it original-sounding. The harmonic interplay of the three members' voices and the tightly woven melodies make for a batch of succinct songs that gleam like iridescent jewels. I tried to simplify things a little bit on the second record and make the songs more basic and sing-alongy, and I wanted this one to be more jazzy. And it's been three years, so hopefully my musicality has grown, and I wanted to show that.