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(4/27/12): "That's a very special moment for us. We had it written and everything. But it was more intense than we had ever really intended. It's something that's never happened on an album before … It was just very special for Daniel, our drummer, and Alex and me, playing together all at once. That's a good example of magic in the recording studio." ~ Victoria, Miami New Times
(5/14/12): “There are spontaneous moments in the recording session we could never have predicted that end up being perfect. The end of the song ‘Irene’ was a moment that happened, something that could not have been planned. The song was written and arranged, and we were playing what we knew.” ~ Victoria, Baltimore
(5/14/12): “The initial idea was that it would repeat and fade out. That was how the record was going to end. It would repeat endlessly and fade out. But we hadn’t thought much about the arc of the feeling in that song, and the feeling just took hold of us, and we didn’t do a fade out at all. We just kept jamming, and it had this weird feeling to it that we really loved.” ~ Alex, Baltimore
(5/15/12): “‘Irene’ is a live take, and it’s recorded on live take, and I think it was the first take. When you are working with tape, things take a lot longer because you do a whole take, and it’s not like when you are on a computer and you just cut and paste. It’s kind of old-fashioned, but it can be really rewarding in terms of just creating a moment for you where that just happened, and now it’s forever.” ~ Victoria, Filler
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