Concertina

“Concertina... It’s like a squeezebox.” [WHFS, Washington D.C (radio) - August 25, 1999]

“Do you ever feel like you walk in a room, and you don’t know why, but you’re just so uncomfortable you’re crawling out of your skin, even though nobody’s touched you, physically? That’s in Concertina, when you feel like you haven’t excavated enough of your different personalities that when one pops up, you’re not sure where it came from, and you try to hack it out of yourself. It shocks you that you could have this kind of fault, or that other people could bring it out in you.” [Alternative Press - September 1999]

“You always have to be listening to the song itself and to the soul of the song. Because sometimes there were different directions I could have taken the songs into and it’s not where the song itself wanted to go. It’s funny, during Concertina, the band all looked at me and said, ‘Oh, just do it like you played it this morning on the piano’. But I cut it to a loopy click track and said, ‘Get in there and pick up your instruments and we’ll find it’. I wanted those electronic drums that Matt was playing with because particle by particle, she slowly changes, and I wanted the sense of the acoustic piano with the electronic drums. That also re-occurs in ‘Lust’. So there was this dichotomy going on and I’m really drawn to that.” [Time-Off - November 24, 1999]