The new project marks the first time that acoustic duo Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale have brought a band into studio with them. We wanted to do something new, Pattengale says.

We had been going around the country yet another time to do the duo show, going to the places we d been before. There arose some sort of need for change. Musically we knew we were going to make the record with a bigger sonic palette, says Ryan. It was liberating to know we didn t have to be able to carry every song with just our two guitars.