Thanks for taking some time to talk.

Luke Lalonde: Yeah, of course.

So this is the tour for your new album, RUFF. Where did you guys record this one? I know in the past you’ve all spent a few months living together.

LL: We did our last two records in Toronto, but the previous one took a long time because of the studio and the producer we were working with to schedule everything. But for this one, we tried to keep it closer to the way we made our first two albums — we just went in, set up, and recorded. We would play through the songs and just track it. Each day we did a new song and we never spent more than a day on each one.

So this time it was only two or three weeks as opposed to months. Which was the goal, really. We wanted to limit the timeframe and just be more straight up with this one I guess — try and capture the feeling of these songs as they’re performed live.

Mitch Derosier: There’s definitely benefits to both methods I think. But it just felt so right to do it that way for this record — for everything to just be so immediate.

LL: Yeah, we knew that was the direction we were gonna take just from the types of songs we were writing early on. It was either we do it all ourselves at our garage studio, or we do it with someone like Jeff McMurrich who’s really easy to work with — but that was always the goal. We wanted to do something easy, live, and rock n roll. It was a fun approach.

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