Description
Frontman Bridwell wrote most of the highly anticipated record at home surrounded by his family instead of “[squirreled] away in some cabin or a beach house” as he’d usually done. While that led to material more informed by his everyday life than ever before, he struggled to translate that into recordings during studio sessions with his bandmates and Lytyle. Apparently, it was a unexpected phone call from Rick Rubin that finally locked the work into place.
