On Letting Go

In an interview with Noisey, Anthony Green talked a bit about comparisons to Juturna:

I see On Letting Go and Juturna almost as brother and sister. After we did Juturna, we wanted to experiment with different things, and we went into that record wanting it to be a musical progression. The thing that I love the most about On Letting Go is that there was really painful stuff happening in my family – the family I was born into – that I didn’t know how to deal with it. Writing about it was making me feel good and connected. I began to feel OK with everything that was happening in my family and my role in it – which was one of very little control – and it was one of the first times in my life where I started taking this relationship that I had with the surrender of the music seriously. I was still getting heavily intoxicated to do it, but that was working for me at the time.

He goes on about the place he was in during writing:

Looking back, it totally was an accurate representation, despite me not thinking that at the time. I was talking lots of psychedelics and Xanax and when I was writing I got lost because of it. There’s a song I wrote – I won’t say which one – but it’s about an episode of Lost, and you wouldn’t know that to listen to it, but it had me in this spiral. At that time I was getting fucked up, but it wasn’t peak destructive yet. It was still enjoyable – we were still able to make music, without the pressure of being on a label. That didn’t happen until way later.