time during the making of Magic
Tricks and Rolling Stone. It was
sort of like having a band full of
session players record an album.
“It was in the back of my mind
because we were getting towards the end of the album and
I thought we might never be all
here together,” recalled Tang. “It
was nuts. I’m not going to say
it was the best way to operate,
but it got the job done and we
got an album out of it. It’s just
fun to hear it all come together.
I was there every time for the
most part until I moved out west.
A guy would walk in and do his
piece and he wouldn’t come
back for another month. Then
he’d come back and he’d hear
this song that he’s on, but all the
lines are now colored in. It was
pretty neat.”
The band describes the album
as a storyteller’s effort. The characters in the songs are instruments, played to convey universal sentiments and entertain. A
runaway, a murderer, a transgender love reversal, and a sentence
Watch the video for “The Chops”
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