| NMY: |
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The new album, Hearts on Parade, is real upbeat and catchy. Will the album be coming out in America? |
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| Stacy: |
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We had a lot of fun making the album. It's the best album I think we've done. We're wheelin' and dealin' to try to find the best home for it. You can go listen to the whole album on our site. |
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| Jamie: |
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I'm sure you could go steal the whole thing too. |
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| NMY: |
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What do you make of some of your fans criticism of the new album? |
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| Jamie: |
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It is funny. Some people will say, 'What happen? They don't rock anymore.' Then you have the other people who say, 'Fuck you-that's great.' It doesn't matter. |
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| Stacy: |
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I think it's a small percentage of people out there [who think we don't rock anymore]. All the people I've met on the tour who are hardcore [fans] think it's the best album we've done. |
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| NMY: |
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It's a different album. I think it's good because why would anyone want to buy the same album over and over? |
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| Jamie: |
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We didn't want to make the same album. We love so many different types of music. This is what we felt like doing and it kind of just happen. The next one will be different too-it might sound like The Eagles. |
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| NMY: |
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That would be awesome. |
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| Stacy: |
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Yeah, we were jamming to some "Take it Easy" today. We played it, but couldn't remember all the verses. It has like 9,000 verses. |
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| NMY: |
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What's going on in this new album? |
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| Jamie: |
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We turned the guitars down. |
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| Stacy: |
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 And we turned the melodies up. It kind of was a natural progression. Jamie and I built this studio in L.A. We just kind of went in there and started working on things everyday. The first stuff sounded a lot like what we used to do.
There was a concerted effort to break the mold. We went in the studio and thought, 'Let's throw out all the rules we used to have and go for it.' This is the music we came out with. |
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| Jamie: |
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We thought, 'Well, can we do that? Well, fuck yeah.' We didn't even realize the music we were doing. When we started making the record and Butch came out, we ended up using a lot of the demos. There is tons of guitar, lead vocals, and backing vocals that we kept from the working demos. It had this cool vibe. We weren't used to no pressure or a preconceived idea of what we thought it should be. This album is more about going in there, trying things out, and experimenting. |
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| NMY: |
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Without label pressure it had to be easier. |
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| Jamie: |
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Yeah. We didn't have anybody. It was just us hanging out and nobody's opinion. |
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| Stacy: |
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That's what happened on the second record. Our label pressured us so much to go into this pop punk world. We are a power pop band for sure, but we're not a drive-through band. We were out doing the Warped Tour and that's not what we want to do. I don't think that's our target audience. There are people who are out there in that crowd, who listen to us, but that's not our sweet spot. For me, this album feels good. Playing some of the songs off the second record doesn't feel that good to me. We were playing the song, 'The Art of Losing' the other night and I didn't feel like saying, '1, 2, fuck you.' When we made the second album, we were pissed off. I was in a bad state. We were on the road for three years straight. |
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| Jamie: |
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We had no time off. |
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| Stacy: |
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The label was all over our ass. That second record has a lot of aggression and angst. This record we wrote in our own studio. We were in the sun everyday and to me that's what this record feels like. |
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