![]() ![]() But they also were managing Beyonce records, so it wasn’t like they could put all their attention and focus on Simple Math. The main two guys at that label, Rob Stringer, who ran the whole thing, and then Steve Barnett, who was the president of Columbia, were both really big supporters of our band. Australia was really great to us on that record, too. It was like, “Man, we can afford to have strings!” After Mean Everything, which felt like a pretty punishing record at times, this was a chance to get beautiful, and it was the first record where we stretched as far as we could possibly stretch to see what kind of genres and sounds we could dip our toes into.Įngland was really great to us. You can tell it’s pretty dramatic, and you notice how wide we wanted it to go. That was the first record me and Rob really got our hands on together. I felt I was really starting to come into my production brain, and so was Rob. There was nobody ever checking in on a single, for better or for worse. The good part of that was, they let us make the record that we wanted to make. We were sort of lost on an island out there. But he was an A&R guy, with not a ton of pull. Columbia said, ‘You can take every band with you except Manchester. ![]() Two weeks later, the guy who runs Canvasback was let go from Columbia, and moved from Columbia over to Atlantic with Canvasback. We were on a version of Columbia for Mean Everything called Canvasback. ![]()
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