![]() ![]() I try not to talk poorly about it, but we definitely wanted to make a different record this time around. We wanted to upset people and surprise people, try hard in some places and really not try at all in other places, and let other people take the wheel just to see what that would turn into. Thiessen: We were going for that with the whole album. I maybe was too quick to be angry about this.” Like, “Oh, there are actually some pretty good songs on there. It does seem like a lot of our fans, even from the initial scowling toward it, have really warmed up to it overall. It’s the reason why our album sounds the way it does.Ĭollapsible Lung was an interesting time, too. Especially as a band and as the scope of our career goes, yeah, I think both those things are the reason we’re here where we’re at today. Hoopes: I think everything you do as a person creates a path that you end up on and where you end up at. I don’t know if that helped separate the last album from this album, taking some time. The 10th anniversary tour was really fun to do, and making an album was obviously the next step after releasing the last one. I feel like we’ve been following a pretty safe path ever since releasing the Collapsible Lung record. Did either of those two events have any bearing on where you decided to go with this record? The last record, Collapsible Lung, got more of a mixed reaction from the fans, and then in between this record and that record you also did the Mmhmm 10th anniversary tour, which is probably regarded as your most successful and best record. I was like, I wish it was that thought out. Then he also said something about another song being connected to “Sahara” off of our Forget and Not Slow Down record. He was like, “Was that coincidence that these are both track 14?” I was like, “Oh man, we didn’t even plan on that.” ![]() Someone today I saw on Twitter was asking about our song “Runnin’” on the new record, which kind of has a piece from the “Deathbed” song. That was mainly not as thought out as one would guess, but we’re happy with how it came together. There are these three and four song pockets of the record that seem to make sense, but then for a lot of them it oddly does make sense as a whole somehow someway. It feels like a lot of the songs really do make sense in context. Hoopes: I actually agree with you, Jonathan. That’s cool that you think they all work together like that. To that end, I felt like they all grouped together to go on this thing. We spent a long time working on the record, so I guess a lot of different songs came out. Thiessen: I didn’t really do it on purpose. What was that like, just pulling everything together and making it gel like that? It’s got the quirky songs, the love songs, the spiritual songs, the emotionally heavy hitting songs, and somehow you’re able to make that come together to encompass all the different faucets Relient K has been over the years. So I think this new record is the most eclectic one you’ve done. My wife’s dad was trying to get a hotel in Akron, and he’s like, “Is Jesus Christ himself coming to Akron? What’s going on?” Then we’re like, “Oh, it’s the Convention. The hotel rooms are all booked up around where we’re from. Hoopes: Yeah, my parents were watching and felt pretty fearful for a national tragedy. I bet you’re glad you’re not in Ohio this week with the RNC Convention in Cleveland. I actually have a song called “Sports,” but it doesn’t mention any teams. I might be done with sports songs for a little bit. I saw some people tweeting lyrics from one of the songs the other day, and I thought it was funny that it was still somehow out there. Thiessen: There actually are some old Cavs songs I put on my MySpace a long time ago when MySpace was a thing. Hippopotamuses,’” is there going to be a Cavs song next? Since you wrote the Browns a song with “Mrs. ![]() We’re really, really, really happy for them. It was such a joy in my heart, that moment. Matt Hoopes: I was so nervous watching Game 7. How do you embrace it? It’s almost one of those things where now that you have it, you’re like, “What do I do with all this happiness that I have?” Yeah, it’s good, but kind of chill. ![]() So are you still basking in the Cavaliers title glow? Lead singer Matt Thiessen and guitarist Matt Hoopes chat on a wide array of topics, including the band’s fresh new album Air for Free, redefining Relient K at this point in their career, and what the future holds. ![]()
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