We don't try to make a specifically commercially approachable kind of record. We're just trying to make the music we normally play and these are the audio choices that we have made for how to present the record.

Some people don't get the gravity of the situation here; people in the Green Zone are always trying to paint a rosy picture, ... These politicians are all about sending people to war but they don't know what it's all about, being over here and getting shot at, walking through s--swamps, having bombs go off, hearing bullets fly by. They have no idea what that's like.

Some people don't get the gravity of the situation here; people in the Green Zone are always trying to paint a rosy picture, ... These politicians are all about sending people to war but they don't know what it's all about, being over here and getting shot at, walking through s--- swamps, having bombs go off, hearing bullets fly by. They have no idea what that's like.

There's so much more subtlety to this new recording. There's a subtlety in the playing. There's also a subtlety in the way I approached the singing. The band was able to really capture the feeling of the songs and not really trade anything that we had sort of arranged for the live presentation, but the songs just aren't as loud.

I'm noticing again and again and again, they're saying this is a good living room record. It's not a good radio record.

I really started hearing a sound for the band for the first time instead of just hearing a sound for the record. So I started trying to put together a specific band that could record with me and also tour with me. And I felt that it was enough of a change in approach to warrant to a change of the name.