Looking back, I can see that Car Wheels, Essence, and World Without Tears form some sort of trilogy, although I didn’t envision it that way. My career had been about taking small steps over a long period of time and in those three records, which came out in a five-year span, everything was uncorked. We recorded World Without Tears in a way similar to how we recorded the Rough Trade record. We went into the Paramour and we just cranked the songs out. We wanted it live and fresh and gnarly. The trilogy, in a way, is like three different ways of making music about sex, love, and the state of the
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