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and we also wanted to make kind of an unconventional record. There was no demo-ing; we just did everything on the fly. It was a very spontaneous recording process, and we knew that wasn’t really something we could do in a fancy, expensive studio. It just took longer than we thought, and we weren’t in a hurry." Unlike their prior effort
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The title of the album is a play on the phrase "delusions of grandeur." When asked about the meaning of the title, the band replied in a
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Zach Rogue described the process of creating the lead single "What Is Left to Solve" as follows: "I wrote it on acoustic guitar and thought it was gonna sound something akin to “Africa” by Toto. But it sounded really boring and lifeless. So Pat started playing a drum machine and I picked up a synth.
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they get signed to a label. thinking they can become new people when the band gets going. but the truth is, you are always yourself, no matter what. the truth always gets you in the end.". In an interview with
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were going. And that was one of those moments as an engineer where I really was happy. We’d end with a little drum fill, just a snare and kick thing and it ended up reminding me so much of a sound on
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The living spirit ghost of Gary Numan must have stopped by because everything got dark and minimal and the song finally started to make sense."
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on March 10, 2016. The third song released from the album, "Ocean," premiered on April 6, 2016 through
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