, an album that sees the highly influential alt-rock group -- Black Francis , Joey Santiago , Paz Lenchantin , and David Lovering -- team up once again with producer Tom Dalgety .
Billboard spoke to Francis shortly after the release of the album’s debut single, “On Graveyard Hill," about the new music, the 30-year anniversary of one of their classic records and more.I guess it’s a reference to an eagle’s nest that was outside the studio. I believe it was in the church steeple. They converted an old church into a studio. I believe David the drummer, being a wildlife observer, spotted this. And the producer, Tom Dalgety, suggested it as an album title.
When we made the demos, I remember sitting with Joey Santiago in his apartment, and listening to the demos of the record - which was basically the whole record, minus maybe one or two songs. I remember we were kind of grinning at each other, like, “Oh yeah, we did something. We’re going to make a good record.”That was the result of us playing in clubs and having a couple of other recording sessions before that, so it instilled a certain kind of a vibe.