“We were just beginning to be open to changing our sound a little more, feeling more free to be quiet and lean less on yelling constantly. Sometimes things just fall into place, and that was one of those things The most distinctive guitar work of the album comes from opener The River, with its slinky 5/4-time riffs dictating the ebb and flow of the track. On their first of two releases in 2015, Quarters found the band dipping their collective toes into the realm of jazz-rock, with each of its four tracks clocking in at precisely 10 minutes and 10 seconds. It’s always surprising to us the things that people dig!” 3. "Cellophane is a segue - a section - and it’s awesome that people have latched onto it, because we didn’t really think of it as a song. At the time, it was quite a lot slower, but I just used this jam as a launch point to write a song around it - and it was written really easily. "I had recorded five or 10 minutes of it with one mic when we were rehearsing, and it happened to be in the same key as. It was Cook, Cavs and myself, playing this loose guitar solo/riff thing. "When we were piecing together that record, there was this one jam we recorded, and it had Cookie playing bass, and it was his riff. The song just needed to go somewhere else and then come back. ![]() The I’m In Your Mind thing was first, and it did really feel like it needed to go to some other place. “Of the four tracks of that suite, this was the last one to come together. From a guitarist’s perspective, Cellophane remains one of the most memorable songs in the band’s catalogue to date. ![]() The third part of a seamless four- song suite, this track from 2014’s swampy I’m In Your Mind Fuzz finds Stu frantically riffing on top of a propulsive, krautrock-inspired beat.
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