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“Our music is emotionally centered and sometimes you take an emotional craft like music and try to analyze it and make it technical, it can sometimes strip away the ability to make a happy accident. In addition to their North Shore upbringing, Álvarez spent some time at Berklee College of Music, hoping to hone his craft. There was there a time when I felt that,” says Dunn-Pilz. “The emotions are expressed in an extreme way. “I don't think about things that I'd rather not think about/Cover my ears with my fingers and drown it out/That’s what I did as a kid and it helped me out/I see him again/There’s a ghost in the attic now.”Īnd there’s “Flake,” dreamy pop with the line “I f-ing hate your guts right now.”ĭunn-Pilz says making the album was healing, but that he’s in a place now with his family where they can have these conversations and move on. always arguing … Silencing calls from my dad/When my mom’s in a hospital bed across state lines in Boston/I sit on my hands, self-assured and absolved/And I don't have to carry that weight.” Sings Jordan: “I’m losing my temper again/Is it part of me?/Kicking and slamming the door. “It’s almost confusing to go too fast,” says Álvarez, “But we do have songs like “Ghosty’ on the record where we’re trying faster tempo stuff.” The song is a standout on the album. “It’s trying to make sure the sadness, pride, jealousy and anger are prevalent in the album,” says Álvarez. Many of the songs go to tough places lyrically, though. Musically, TOLEDO’s comfort zone is indeed light, acoustic-based rock in the mid-tempo zone.

They’re looking back at their formative years from the perspective of post-college maturity, but also singing, at times, in the voices of themselves as youths. It’s such a landscape, even if it’s not purely mentioned.” “With the new album,” adds Álvarez, “it’s about us growing up and Newburyport is a big part of that. Something about that air of calm that exists in Newburyport permeates the music.” Everything is kind of flowery, even if we’re trying to be the opposite. “We grew up in nature and I think there’s a romantic element to the music, in the sense of a return to nature. “We’re not city boys,” says Dunn-Pilz, of the effect environment and upbringing had on the music.

“Nah, we’re little Jewish boys,” says Álvarez.) (The choice of the church had nothing to do with religion. They recorded the instrumental parts for “How It Ends” in upstate New York but did vocals at Belleville Congregational Church in Newburyport, where they’ll play Dec. "People have been saying yacht rock is coming back and that’s a big fear of ours to be categorized as that.” Álvarez adds that they’re not as grungy as they wish they were. "People have been saying yacht rock is coming back and that’s a big fear of ours to be categorized as that." Dan Álvarez de Toledo So, the next record is going to be at breakneck speed.Nah, I wanna push the boundaries and go even slower.” is still slower than it’s probably meant to be. I think literally means we’re not capable of playing fast enough yet. “It stems more from us not being able to play fast enough,” adds Dunn-Pilz. “I think it just means everything is somewhat downtempo and chill,” says Álvarez. Or maybe, as Stereogum put it, they are a “pillowcore duo” - a genre term new to me, but then again "core" is a suffix for just about anything these days. “How It Ends” is heavy lyrically, but on the lighter side musically. “I grew up in a family where you didn’t talk about your issues, but they were bubbling up for years,” adds Dunn-Pilz. It was a cathartic experience for everyone.” It’s me trying to understand a little more about Jordan’s situation. “It looks into some of the trials Jordan had to deal with but also my insignificant trials because I was raised within a great household with loving parents. "Soda Can," at the front end of the album, introduces their relationship and the relationship that Dunn-Pilz had with Álvarez’s parents. “We grew up together and we’re watching these experiences unfold for each other,” says Álvarez.