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Much respect to that. I guess the feelings translated to me on the self-titled, helped out by the beautiful video for Lost In My Mind, gave me this doe-eyed fantasy of you guys sitting in a cabin in the middle of the Northwest woods, in the wintertime, singing these beautiful acoustic songs and would do so for as long as I wanted you to :)

That's the selfish dream of every big fan, isnt it? Guys? .... Guys?

Hey Josiah. Huge fan since the self-titled here. Your verses on Rivers And Roads are my favorite parts on that album. We actually met in Hoboken, NJ when you played a last minute show at Maxwell's a few years back. You and all your band mates hung around with my friends and chatted for a while and I left with a poster autographed from all of you guys. It's actually up on my wall right now and has been since.

I wanted to ask how the sonic shift in this new album came about. I've read statements that said you guys were inspired by touring with bigger, more eclectic bands, specifically Iron & Wine for example. On this new album, I feel like you guys fell victim to the same fate as Iron & Wine, in which you expanded your sound strictly for the sake of expanding it, without any substantial inspiration or direction behind that, resulting in you guys applying your great voices and instrumentation to generic, uninspired "Indie Rock Lite" style songs. Mostly gone are your wise and wistful lyricism and genuine backwood, down-home roots sound and what we are left with is an album full of songs that sound like Mumford & Sons and Coldplay had a baby that just bought its first Microkorg last week. Was this shift in style encouraged and maybe a bit executively decided by Sub Pop? Was it more to follow in the footsteps of the big arena bands you toured with? Or is this truly the sound you envisioned for The Head And The Heart from the start?

No disrespect, just a very let down fan looking for some inside info from the band.