Gersey: Star Treatment.

Gersey play The Zoo on Friday and the Zoo Stage at Livid at the RNA Showgrounds on Saturday. Storms Dressed As Stars is in stores now.

Back in 2000, Gersey released Hope Springs, one of the years musical gems. Two years later it seems they’ve trumped themselves with Storms Dressed As Stars, eleven tracks of elegant, swaggering and thoughtful indie pop.

“This was massive for us, I think,” ponders founding member Craig Jackson. “There was a lot of pressure from ourselves to get something we wanted. Three years in the making, I guess.”

When you’re so close to a record and you’ve spent so much time on it, can it be a challenge to maintain your sense of perspective and your focus on what you’re working on?

“We always kinda knew which way we were going to go, because we demoed this one more than we did the last record. We always had the picture or the idea in our heads. We didn’t get too self-indulgent. You always have a rough idea in your head, and all you can do it hope that it works. You have to trust what you’re doing. It always works out in the ballpark. There was a couple of nice surprises.”

What was the happy accident this time around? What are you really happy with that came from a mistake or you though wouldn’t work?

“Goodbye Columbus was a nice little happy accident. Songs like A Day To Be Certain, that came out ten times better that we thought it would. The song For Whom Do You Sail, that was a nice surprise how it turned out.”

Do any of you guys sail, or are you into boating? There’s a bit of a nautical theme going on.

“It’s very oceany. I think all of us are afraid of the water,” he chuckles. “None of us are sailors or anything. Well maybe from the perspective of coming into a town, spending all our money and chasing women… I think that’s as close to being sailors as we’re going to get.”