Michael Smith, Journalist

“But with this record, it’s very strange... because we started recording it on half-inch eight-track, and then it kind of mutated into going in the studio with the Neve board, then going into our own basements with our Pro Tools – we just did every imaginable technique.”

"Just about everything that’s happened to me has happened by chance."

"A couple of months later we’d been in contact with the guy who organised the event whose name is Mikey Jayy – he’s host of some [online] radio show in LA [The Great Unknowns presents KGUP 106.5] – and he asked us to come and perform over there as well."

"What I tried to do this year is two things in particular. I’ve gone back to my roots, so it’s going to be a very authentic 1930s night."

"I’d like to make a Western – I’d like to be violently killed in a Western."

Of course, there are plenty of other and finer singers mining this catalogue, but if you know nothing about it, After Hours is as good a place as any to dip your toes.

“Rather than listening [to music], we’re trying to take more of a body-movement approach with this record.”

"[Producer Lou Giordano]'s always been there for me – he’s my bullshit detector."

"I didn’t want anything to cross, Hellyeah in this box and Mudvayne in this box, but with Mudvayne being on hiatus for an indefinite amount of time, I thought, ‘Fuck it’."

“I write all the songs as just normal songs, and then they end up taking sort of different directions."

Just as committed and passionate but probably lucky to see anyone beyond former fans caring to seek them out. Which is a shame. There are far inferior records getting far greater attention.