Lyrics
Regarding the album's lyrical content, vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala has stated that:
| “ | A lot of it was on the spot. Omar — because he collects TVs — would set up his wall of TVs again. We used to live together and he would set them up all the time — kind of like in the David Bowie movie, The Man Who Fell to Earth, he had a stack of TVs like that. So he would do that while I would record vocals, and that would be the main inspiration. So it was everything from The Magnificent Seven and any Akira Kurosawa stuff. And I wouldn’t have written right away; I would just do takes of gibberish and then later try to fix them to make them into words. Sometimes he wanted to just keep the gibberish takes which he liked a lot better because it was the first reaction to the music. It’s just really being in a state of being willing to give up to the producer your scratch tracks, as opposed to really working on it and refining it. | ” |
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