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fter Texas native Britt Daniel moved from LA back to Austin late in 2019, the band immediately started working on at drummer Jim Eno’s Public Hi-Fi studio. “The idea this time was to record in a proper city, where we could soak up the music and energy,” Daniel recalls. “And it worked amazingly for the first four months or so, and then, of course, there was suddenly none of that. Though there was still an energy in Austin during lockdown; that’s the vibe I was feeling when I wrote the song ‘Lucifer On The Sofa’.”

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