Grace was kind enough to give me a few minutes and a few questions in the final minutes before the band hit the Webster Hall stage on Friday night. The chaos and energy in the room made it difficult to talk but I did hear a few things of interest.

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	<li>The band is re-energized by the Thanksgiving break - everyone got some needed downtime and home cooked food. Grace, how is rarely "connected" to the internet spent some time surfing and saw, as she puts it "everything". One highlight of "everything" is apparently YouTube videos of Phish from 1982.</li>

	<li>They plan on hitting the studio tentatively in late February or early March. No studio time is booked and no producer is on board but Grace assured me that they have a few strong candidates in mind. They'll choose cities somewhat based on the availability of the producer.</li>
	<li>Grace describes the new songs she has queued up as more structurally complex than usual. Mostly, they were written at the keyboard - an instrument she admits that she can play with much more subtly than the guitar. She doesn't seem a major departure from the sound based built by "NBTW" and "TIS" but rather a continuation of the singer/songwriter base that can blow up into the sound of a powerful rock and roll band.</li>
	<li>They have nine or ten songs at "demo" stage - ready to present to the whole band to work on and see if they feel right. No guarantees that any of them will make the cut for the record.</li>
They have purposefully not played any of the new stuff live. The band wants to make sure that they don't bring any "song stigma" into the studio with them

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