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Valley Advocate: What inspired you to do this kind of era-specific record?
Eric Poulin: Well, I had somewhat of an awakening as a musician and songwriter during a stretch of time when I actually wasn't playing music at all. After kicking around in a couple of local bands for years, I became somewhat of a musical recluse when I started graduate school in 2001. During the time that I was in school, I really didn't play music at all—and at the same time, came to the realization that Brill Building AM-radio pop was really the style of music that made me happy. Most specifically, the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David were really the ones that stayed with me. I mean—"Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head," "I Say a Little Prayer"—how can you hear songs like that and not have a smile in your heart?
So, after years of playing ska, punk, and indie, I decided to follow my heart and try to write the type of songs that truly made me happy. So, shamelessly, we went to work on trying to make an album of '60s and '70s AM-radio pop. So Bacharach and David, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Lieber and Stoller, The Carpenters, The Cowsills—these were the writers and performers that we were using as a blueprint. And we were trying to be as absolutely faithful to these acts as possible, without any sort of sense of hipster irony.
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