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How did the way you were raised impact your music later in life? When I was five years old we lived in a place called Icy Lake that was, literally, just a frozen lake. We had to mush dogs to get out of the cabin to the edge of the road, where we parked the truck. Also, my dad actually went to Woodstock. He came to Alaska straight after that, and lived off the land for three years. So everything that my dad brought with him was pre, and all the records were from that era: the Beatles, Hendrix.

I never played a lot growing up, because everything I listened to was so 60s era. The greatest music had already been written. Everything that I saw was just so — untouchable. I was coming down to visit Zach in Portland. Zach, Eric and I all grew up together.

It was strange how the experience of seeing bands play for no money and no people made me want to play music.

It was realizing that you can play music for gas money, so you can travel and see the world. When we started, we bought a mini van, a rice cooker and a five-pound bag of rice. Before doing this, I never pictured myself playing in New York City. I never saw my dad take a day off. There was a three-year gap between your seventh album Evil Friends and this one. What happened? You just need an instrument. Anything that can make a sound. That ultimately led me to throwing out the record. We happened to [be there] between Kanye [West] sessions.

That whole thing was just too much for me. It was a talk with my dad that actually brought us back down to earth. The bandmates then opted to finance their third record themselves, drawing upon a wealth of guest musicians -- including trombonists, trumpeters, and violinists -- to create the eclectic Censored Colors.

In , the group released The Satanic Satanist , which became their first record to chart on the Billboard They quickly followed it in with the mellower and more electronic American Ghetto , and the band signed with Atlantic Records later that year.

Guitarist Noah Gersh joined the lineup for Portugal. The Man 's summer tour, and the group recorded their major-label debut album, In the Mountain in the Cloud , in late Around that time, Sleep Forever, a minute short directed by Michael Ragen and shot entirely in Gourley 's hometown, premiered on the Independent Film Channel.

It would be the last recording for members Sechrist and Neighbors , who were replaced by drummer Kane Ritchotte and keyboardist Kyle O'Quin.

They returned to the studio in with the Beastie Boys ' Mike D for their eighth studio album. The recordings were eventually scrapped, however, and the band emerged in with fresh material via the self-produced Woodstock. Led by the single "Feel It Still," it was named in honor of the festival and the group's attempt to "say something that mattered" in a context of sociopolitical unrest.

A critical and commercial success, "Feel It Still" earned Portugal. Returning in , the group turned in a pair of unlikely tracks: first, a cover of "Tomorrow" from the musical Annie for the children's compilation At Home with the Kids in August, followed later that year by "Who's Gonna Stop Me," a collaboration with Weird Al Yankovic that honored Indigenous Peoples' Day.

A live studio recording from emerged in , originally taking place after the tour for their third album and before the recording of their fourth; it captured the live energy they had built up from playing stages worldwide.

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