Member of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs+ Debut solo album from former Alaska! & Lowercase frontman+ +Recorded in Nashville by Mark Nevers (Bonny Prince Billy, Lou Barlow)+Some of the things that inspired me during the time of writing these songs were Buddy Holly demos that he recorded at home in NYC shortly before his death, early Joe Meek recording I Hear a New World, John Fahey's the Yellow Princess, Sylvia Plath's Ariel poems, Truman Capote's first book Other Voices, Other Rooms, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, and a collection of eastern classical instrumental records of past masters that I inherited from my father. I want to save people with music. I feel that I was born to siphon away their poisons and negative energy so that they might be happier.