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Everybody wants to know, then: What does the music sound like?

I guess we can lend it to the amount of time that it took, but I think every song on this record sounds different from the next one. It’s very spontaneous, and there’s a variety of different styles. We missed a couple things from our first record in terms of sonically, with these little instruments that we hadn’t really used on our second record. There [were] a lot of organic instruments and not a lot of electronics or synthesizers. So we wanted to get back to some of that—and that was a blast, just learning these synthesizers and learning the keyboards and figuring out why this sound does this. It was kind of just like music nerd school, which was awesome. We got to nerd out for little bits and have a great time doing it. It really lends itself to a lot of different styles and a lot of spontaneous moments. I think it’s pretty diverse, it’s safe to say.

“The Ballad of Mona Lisa” has the upbeat pop energy of A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out, with the focus and clarity of Pretty. Odd. Is that fair to say?

Thank you! I take that as a great compliment. That’s something we definitely wanted to kind of get back to, an energy—like I said before, just the energy that we had on the first record. We were really excited, we didn’t know what to expect. It was like a fresh start. This record is that—it was just a fresh start again. It was our second chance, here we go, we’re just starting from scratch, back to square one, let’s do it.