Q&A

How has the past year been?

ALAN SPARHAWK: When quarantine hit, we’d just finished touring, and we were going to take a little time off and get ready for recording. It sort of fit into the cycle. We were in the trajectory of working on stuff, we had a few songs. That, and the Friday Instagrams helped us use the time to our advantage.

What did you get out of the Instagram live performances? Was it a useful way of workshopping new material?

For sure, we were able to work on the new songs and it kind of helped]. So without that, it’s surprisingly crippling. We’ve been slacking on it a bit. We don’t do it every week but I’ve kind of been missing it. It keeps me on my toes!