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The trip was not a getaway to clear their heads. Batmanglij and Koenig, the band's songwriters, rolled through intense sessions during what was an entirely foreign and experimental approach to filling out an album. Koenig would walk around the grounds of the cottage with a legal pad, jotting down ideas, while Batmanglij stayed in the house and tinkered with putting songs together. Then Koenig would walk back through the door. "I'd set up a vocal mic and I'd say, 'Go! Do it!'" Batmanglij said. Koenig said he also holed up in a house on Long Island, which he called "an experiment to see how I would react to not talking to a single person for four days." In all, the band spent a year and a half making the record, which doesn't strike Koenig "as all that crazy" given four previous years of nonstop touring and recording. He was happy with the results. "We easily could have released an album a year earlier if we had just rolled with the songs that we'd written up to that point," Koenig said. "And, you know, maybe half of it would have been the same. But then another half would be mediocre. I really can't stand the idea that we'd ever release a song that felt like a throwaway."
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