You can tap into your emotions and use them to tell stories instead.” “You don’t have to always write about yourself. “If Brandon Flowers actually did the things he wrote about on the first Killers album, he’d be in prison,” Erik laughs. Instead of digging back into their more obvious influences for LP2, the band (solely the Paulsons for the first time ever) spent time exploring albums from the likes of The Killers, Arcade Fire, and Bruce Springsteen – timeless artists who do more than just write songs: They tell stories, and this new way of approaching Remo Drive immediately made a mark on the songs the duo wrote.

We wanted to keep thinking outside the box and finding our own unique voice.” “But almost as soon as we did that, we started feeling constrained by where we found ourselves. “Our first record was so much fun because it felt like we were breaking out of a box, mostly our local music scene,” Erik says. Instead of letting off-kilter turns of phrase and nervous energy capture listeners’ ears, Remo Drive allow their confidence to take center stage. So Erik’s lyrics are still just as emotionally resonant and universally relatable as they were on Greatest Hits here, though, they’re far more intentional and precise. Produced by Joe Reinhart (Modern Baseball, Hop Along) and mixed by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol), Natural, Everyday Degradation doesn’t burn the Remo Drive playbook – it calibrates it to highlight the band’s true strengths. While Greatest Hits overflowed with wide-eyed nativity and whole-hearted enthusiasm, NATURAL, EVERYDAY DEGRADATION (due out XX on Epitaph) finds the Paulson brothers crafting a sturdier brand of indie-rock. Perhaps most importantly, this time to reflect showed Remo Drive what they didn’t want to do on their follow-up. “It taught me a lot about who I was and who we wanted to be as a band.” “I spent a lot of time asking questions and looking inward,” Erik says. All that time spent on toll roads and tarmacs left the brothers endless opportunities to think about how far their band had come in a short time – as well as plan for the future.

Greatest Hits, along with 2018’s POP MUSIC EP, took the band around the world with the likes of Saves The Day and Hippo Campus. Since releasing their debut album, GREATEST HITS, in 2017 (later re-released in 2018 by Epitaph Records), brothers Erik and Stephen Paulson have been pegged as one of the most captivating acts in the new-era indie rock scene, mixing the musicality of bands like Weezer, Title Fight, and The Police with the idiosyncratic lyrical tendencies of the genre’s more modern movement. REMO DRIVE have had a lot of time to think.

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