And this one is so much more about owning that space. We had a bit of the answer, we’re all one. Petricca: In a sense, on the last record, we felt like we had an edge on the world. And actually, speaking of that - Nick, you’ve said that this album “is about owning the question and not having the answer.” I feel like that sentiment is so powerful. Regardless of what side or what your beliefs are, there was just a lot of confusion and a lot of like, “Wow, that - didn’t expect that.” So this internal restart and looking forward into the unknown as a band was sort of oddly mirrored with the country. Petricca: That week we came together was also the week that Donald Trump was elected. And here we were three years later, feeling confused and having questions and wanting to express that as a group, and that really became the driving push behind working on songs like “All I Want,” which kind of got the record moving. Talking Is Hard was about the power of love and love goes marching on. We came to grips with the fact that we didn’t have all the answers despite what the second record said. And more importantly, we had things to ask. Maiman: In October in Austin, it was just immediately evident that there was still something magical happening between these four musical voices and we still had more to say. There’s a lyric in the song called “Sound of Awakening” that is “the distance and the difference between us is illusion.” A big part of what we went through was navigating the chasm that we’d created between each other, the space and the distance, and finding common ground and remembering that we share something really magical with one another. The time apart allowed us to sort of distill that life experience down just to understand each other again as brothers. There had been a lot of space that touring created between us and a lot of space for us to not have to talk. Petricca: We’re business partners, creative partners, roommates 90 percent of the year and dear friends, and we had to come together and connect on a deep level in order to make music again. When you guys did try making music together again, what was ultimately deciding factor for you to work on another album and continue Walk the Moon? Everyone was put in a corner and came back together.

So after that time, we put ourselves in time out. It’s not something that happens with everybody that you play with and it’s easy to take for granted when that’s all you’re seeing every day, 300 days a year. Maiman: I think, in total, it was five ? I think what ended up happening is we ended up losing sight over what had brought us together in the first place, which was just a drive for music and a pretty special connection musically.

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