“We all went to jazz school together, so no matter what we did, it would be jazzy,” he explains via phone from New York, where he was doing “promotional stuff” for the new album,. Singer-songwriter Alisa Amador opens the show. “It was long extended improvisational sessions and lots of lyrics. It was really experimental. But we started touring and playing in bars and would see what people responded to.
Aside from the new approach to songwriting, Calabrese says the band didn’t intend to do anything differently with this album. “That’s the subtext for that song,” explains Calabrese. “That was the inspiration for that song. It shows you how intellectual is and how nerdy we are.” “That one was prompted by some chords and melody that Bridget had going, but Rachael had given a song prompt for a song that is older and more mature,” Calabrese explains. “Looking back on it, you are fond of the breakup, and you can see how neither of you were the same person. It’s a nostalgic breakup song. It’s like, ‘How nice. We had that thing, but we don’t have it anymore.’ Now that we’re closing in on 40, the breakup songs take on a different tone.