"When you get really into jazz and technical music, it takes over your frame, you can't do anything free," he remembers. "I didn't think I ever would write songs. It's been a kind of release. The first people I tried to rip off were Elliott Smith, Nick Drake – very tender. When you're 19 and discovering depression, they're pretty interesting! But I'm not that way any more. Especially on this record. There's not a lot of that depressive energy in general. Grizzly Bear got me out of the house? It's true." Rossen and the once lovelorn Droste dumped their old, low thoughts for the sunny, soaring Veckatimest. Full Article at The Independent