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"Instead of isolating itself in the studio, the band turned the recording into a kind of community project, inviting its friends—including And And And, Hustle and Drone, Grandparents and Tyler Keene’s Log Across the Washer—to each produce a different track on the album. As a result, The History of Voyager and Legend Tripping (let’s not even get into the origins of that title) serves as a de facto survey of the Portland underground in 2012, filtered through the smeary lens of a single band. Although it has a uniform sound—bright riffs channeled through woozy guitars, languorous melodies flooded with lightheaded euphoria—the group says each contributor exerted an influence on the record.

“If we had put out all the demos of this album, it would’ve been a punk-rock album, mostly,” Howard says. “And it wouldn’t have been that good.” -- Matthew Singer of Willamette Week