"We wanted it to be different from 'Good Dog, Bad Dog,'" Detweiler says. "We didn't want to make the same record twice. We'd got such a good response to 'Good Dog, Bad Dog,' it would've been very easy to kind of gather around and do another record like that. This one, we thought, 'Let's make a juicy, messy, left-of-center, literate pop record. So that's what we tried to do. We tried to expand the palette of sounds, bring in some string players and fool around. We really tried to push the envelope a little bit."
Currently OTR is back on the road where it belongs, introducing new songs to eager audiences. Touring as a five-piece band means that OTR's material gets an extra blast of sonic energy.
"I think the songs have a bigger heartbeat live," Detweiler says. "This band can really sink their teeth into a song and make it twitch and moan. It's probably more vivid and a little bit more urgent live. Overall, there's a little bit more electricity in the air when we play them in front of an audience."
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