Out Of Control Lyrics

JV: I did all the songwriting, I guess. I involved a lot of other people in the sort of second phase, as I call it, and coming in to make musical colorations. But the songwriting was sort of a part of some subconscious ramblings and attempting to discover new sonic space. I don't how to say it without sounding like a totally uppity artsy guy. But just trying to explore some new sonic space with different instruments and different ways of recording those instruments and seeing what I could come up with that way. And then bringing other people in really helped me take the songs to another place.

JG: So did you start out writing, just you and your guitar?

JV: No, I kind of couldn't do that. It became impossible for me to just sit down with the guitar and start writing a song. So all the songs on this record were written as they were recorded. And I think that gave me this unique opportunity to make sure I was recording the guitar or keyboard or whatever instrument I was using in a particular song to set it up to be something interesting sonically that was going to be fun and interesting to write around in the studio setting. So the writing process was sort of intertwined with that. JV: Yeah, I mean, I played some keyboard and I played some drums. A lot of the songs were pretty fleshed-out by the time I brought in a lot of the people. Matt McCaughan and Sean Carey, I think, were there more in the beginning for me to help flesh out some of the drum parts. But I was playing some drums; I was playing some bass and keyboards and things like that, and also just experimenting with vocals the whole time. And then they kind of came in when I was ready to add that second layer of color.