What were the main inspirations for the new album?

Din: Musical inspirations?

Well, musical or personal.

Din: Um, well musical I think well U2 obviously. I've been listening to a lot of Kings of Leon, um let's see what else. Zoe, Iggy Pop, I mean these are songs that have been written over the last several years so ah, you know, musically any great band with great songs or any great artist with great songs you know, Joy Division definitely, New Order. Um, I guess and as far as like you like schematically and subject matter a lot if it is kinda mixed. You know there's a lot of personal things in there, personal relationships in there, going through a lot of personal relationships and some of that is imagined, you know, kinda playing around with different situations I guess. And there's also a lot of politics in the songs I think. You know, the time we're living in and my brother and I being from Kashmir that plays a big part of it.

A song like The Shake is our response to you know a lot of the extremist acts that are being carried out you know in the name of religion or any sort of belief. We've unfortunately experienced a lot of that, or we're more aware of these things. You know, and um, from us growing up the way we have you know being American and then being South Asian and specifically Muslim I think we wanted to, we wanted to say something against those extremist elements, those fringe elements.