Blonde Redhead has always been a band that innovates with each album. They challenge themselves with each recording situation, and the results have been stunning every time. Their music is always inspired by the same emotions, but their tastes and ways they choose to execute those emotions are constantly evolving. It was the early conversations about how to make this record that led the band to work with the up and coming Swedish duo Van Rivers and The Subliminal Kid (Henrik von Sivers and Peder Mannerfelt) as producers on the record. Drew Brown (Radiohead, Beck) also came on board to record the tracks that would eventually be used in Stockholm.

Los Angeles foursome Talk In Tongues didn't come out of nowhere, although it sounded that way when their debut single "Still Don't Seem To Care" suddenly appeared online. And it felt that way for them at the beginning, too, when each member was a refugee from another band that just wasn't working right. Back then, they were barely acquaintances—guitarist and singer Mccoy Kirgo remembers seeing his future bandmates at shows in their other bands, and then at parties after the shows. And if you looked into the music they'd already made, it didn't quite make sense for them to put a band together. (Future bassist Waylon Rector wrote constantly, but all his songs were laptop-made synth-pop.)

[source: Waiting Room website, 2015-Jun-8]