Springtime is EP time!
Cox tells the Music Mix.
Its a totally new thing.
(Maybe 12 of them will ever get released, he hastens to add.)
I dont know whats going on with my style right now, he says.
Ive been using lots of folky sounds, but not in a typical boring way.
Im inventing a new genre: Plastic folk.
Why waste your time?
Nobodys going to care about us forever.
Youve got to give people something to remember you by.
I was into really simple, American stuff, doo-wop.
I just got bored with experimental music, cause I thought everybody was doing the same thing with it.
Disappearing Ink: I had nothing to do with that except the lyrics.
I made [my bandmates] write that one by themselves.
I was like, You guys are probably getting tired of me writing all the songs.
We tried to jam a little bit, and were not a jam band.
I was like, F this, Im gonna go home and Im gonna watchThe Simpsons.
You guys dont leave til youve written an awesome song, and email it to me when youre done.
Famous Last Words: I wrote that one all by myself in one 5-minute burst.
I just did it one night in my bedroom.
It sounds identical to the demo.
Game of Diamonds: Thats a good collaborative one.
Im into Neil Young right now, [and] Bob Dylan.
Its comforting, you know?
I was interested in seeing if the band could experiment in that folk territory.
It really worked out well.
I played a lap steel that my dad built me.
Thats our American folk jam.
Very homey, organic.
We had our friend make this weird video collage that we took the audio from for the outro.
It sounds like a Magazine song or something.
