Like its predecessors, it's an uncategorizable, freely cacophonous and dreamy ride. Oh yeah, it was the only conscious decision we made about the record. I think we're as guilty as anybody for doing 80-minute CDs. It's kind of a weird thing, because, in a way, when people do recordings, they write all these songs. I think a lot of people who buy CDs by bands they like would like to devote their time to really listening to that much music, but I don't think it generally happens that much.
Attention spans do seem to be getting shorter and shorter.
That's about it. I think that with the kind of music that we make, which is a bit more unorthodox than usual, that brevity is a good factor. For this CD, we really wanted it to be the length of an LP, which is a format we all grew up with and feel comfortable with. Yeah, I think bludgeoned is a good word. It took a long time, but it was a casual time.