Geographer

After doing SXSW with a broken ankle in 2011, and playing 3 to 4 shows a day in 2012, I wanted to experience SXSW as a spectator instead of a sweaty and fried participant.  Playing shows there is so exhilarating, the crowds bring large festival energy to small rooms, but by the end of that whirlwind three days, with 10 shows behind you, you can get a little warn out.  And you realize there's so much music happening around you, but you haven't gotten to see any of it.  So I got myself a plane ticket and flew down there with my manager to link up with friends and actually have time to see some bands...

We're back in San Francisco, reunited with friends, loved ones and synthesizers, enjoying a little down time after our first headlining tour of the U.S.!  Of course for us, that down time lasted about 2 days, and we're back in the studio working on new songs.  But that's the way we like it.  We didn't really know what to expect at a lot of the shows, a lot of places we had never played before, and America, you blew us away.