<strong>I’m interested in the areas that influence music outside of the music itself so in that regard, how important is Vermont as a locale to your sound and the sound of the band?</strong>

Vermont is cool. Vermonters are definitely proud of themselves, and have a bit of independent pride. Which sometimes I think can be annoying to outsiders, but I think there’s something definitely ingrained there… a fierce independent streak. I think that definitely influences musicians and artists that come out of there. There’s definitely a little bit of a “fuck you” to mainstream America. You know, rows of Applebees, and Costcos and shit like that are kind of frowned upon in Vermont. We’re proud that we don’t have billboards, and that there’s only two or three Walmarts in the state. Now we travel across the country and we go to all these strip-malls and I think, “Man, Vermonters are pretty damn cool for not taking this road”. I definitely think we’re influenced by that.