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By the time the band began planning for recording sessions, Cox had hundreds of demos for them to choose from. During the interview, he said there are more than 600 on his hard drive. Then came Fauver's departure. Guitarist Lockett Pundt and drummer Moses Archuleta, he said, were in favor of continuing. "We were all talking about getting together to work on the new stuff, and then he just sort of dropped that on us," Cox said, adding that Fauver cited personal reasons. "I honestly thought when Josh quit, 'Oh well, I guess that's that.' But then I realized, 'What am I going to do with all these songs?'" Cox said. By January, photos surfaced of new bassist Josh McKay and new guitarist Frankie Broyles strumming their instruments at the band's Notown rehearsal space and studio in the Atlanta area. Cox describes the space as "our bat cave," where he often goes in the middle of the night to record ideas for songs. The band then spent a couple weeks listening to Cox's demos and decided together which ones they wanted to put on "Monomania." Recording sessions for the album were held in New York in January and February. "Some of my favorites didn't make it on the album. Some songs that I didn't really think were worthy did make it on the album. Some songs that we all thought were the best ones didn't make it on the album. I don't know how that works," he said. Asked whether the castoffs might surface someday, Cox replied: "I mean, one would think so, but I'll probably start writing other songs. That's how it happens. That's how you have 600 songs."
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