A term that comes up a lot is empowerment and it gives us a lot of joy when we can tell that our listeners, the people at our shows, feel empowered. Petricca: Yeah, I want to piggyback off of that. And that's what I get from the record and I hope other people take comfort from that as well. It's okay to be confused or angry or scared and that other people feel that way too. I want people to take comfort in knowing it's okay to not know what's going to happen. I think on this one we are allowing ourselves to ask questions and be comfortable without them having an obvious answer. And in that experience of it being Walk The Moon, there are feelings that we have always promoted and have always wanted at our shows, which is unity and not being alone. At the height of our game and the best we can.

It's so much fun and we played this song called “Headphones.” After the show, I saw a tweet where someone said 'New WALK THE MOON does what WALK THE MOON wants.' I thought that was the best take away that anyone could get from the record. Maiman: A couple months ago we played Summerfest in Milwaukee, which we've done a couple times now and is just the best. And why am I not, why am I not finding happiness in all of these external things? Trying to be vegan, trying to be straight, trying to buy cool stuff, trying to identify with this or that thing outside of myself, and realizing that external validation doesn't have a whole lot of value.īaltin: When you hear this final record, what do you take from it? “All I Want,” in particular, being that sort of jumping off point, lyrically thematically it's really a song about how do I get happy. Petricca: Being on the road together for basically five years straight from the beginning of the first record through making the second record and the whole journey we didn't really have a moment to really sit and look at where we were on a personal level with ourselves and with each other. In contrast to that last record it ended up asking a lot more questions than it answers.īaltin: What were some of the questions that you had and some of the things you found answers to? That contrasted to the last record in a pretty significant way, when we were kind of coming out with this love conquers all, the truth goes marching on kind of perspective.

And that did become a theme in the record, having these questions we really didn't have an answer to. Maiman: There is a song on the record that we wrote in Austin called “All I Want.” That was kind of a familiar space for us, musically, but lyrically there were these big what if questions. But I don't think it really sounds like the rest of the record. It got us into the flow of making this record. “Headphones” was definitely the first thing that got us back into the flow of making music with one another.

Nicholas Petricca: I don't know if that's the case for us.

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