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Released 29 Oct 2001
The duo completed this album almost entirely remotely. “Back in those days we used to send DAT tapes to each other in the mail,” McBride recalled in a 2015 Rolling Stone interview. “Being so separated was kind of a good thing because it gave us both time to either think through or ruminate about what the other person had done and be a little more attentive and deliberate with what to do next. Before Tired Sounds we both kind of came to an agreement that we wanted something we described as stronger sounds. We wanted to push ourselves to find stuff that was more than just incidental, find things that could be sonically relevant by themselves."
Brian McBride
"It was difficult at the start," says Wiltzie. "I taught myself how to write music. In the beginning it was a little bit daunting but now I've gotten a lot better at it. I'm recording with orchestras now so I feel very confident. It's just like learning another language. After a while, you wake up one morning and you realise, 'Oh, I understand this'. Then it's fine…I remember after Tired Sounds came out there was the usual couple reviews here and there, and it did not even sell a thousand copies, until a few years later suddenly Joel sent over a
it had sold three thousand-plus copies, and it continued to keep selling and we are almost twenty years later, and it keeps selling in the physical format. I have no idea what caused SOTL to be classified the way it has become so revered. It is as if the concept of 'do nothing for as long as possible' actually is a business model for success."
Adam Wiltzie