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The whole songwriting process and perfecting our arrangements is something that requires regular practice. We recorded this in late summer and we had been getting together weekly for at least a year before that to work on songs and arrangements. If you are only getting together once a week you don’t make much progress, it’s pretty slow going. It’s not like we are having these marathon rehearsals for four or five hours. We work on two or three songs each time and might only play them two, but there was a connection to the old album and enough to fit under one roof.

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