Powder Blue Vinyl. All 11 tracks come together to paint a beautiful picture. The lyrics invoke the listener'simagination throughout. They're introspective, but vague and open-ended. The indierock backdrop shows signs of psych-soul influence with dry and punchy drums, lushsynth lines, and tastefully verb-soaked vocal production. Nau's vocal delivery fallssomewhere between crooning to a crowd, telling stories to a loved one, and musing tohimself. The singer-songwriter's relaxed attitude toward making records is discernible in thesound. A while back, veteran producer and engineer Adrien Olsen (The Killers, LucyDacus, Fruit Bats), approached him about recording in his Richmond, Virginia-basedstudio. He called a few old friends that consisted of several long-time collaborators andmusicians who had participated in Nau's various recording and touring efforts over theyears. Nau and the band spent five days at Montrose Recording and left with a plan to returnand finish up a few months later. "After the first session, I took a copy of the recordingswith me to overdub a few things at my spot," Michael shared. "Then, I dumped the wholething onto a cassette as one long stream of songs." With the record mostly complete,the final session at Montrose would consist of some simple overdubs and finishingtouches. But somehow, in the months between, he lost the overdubs. "Going into the secondsession, all I had was the cassette," Michael explained. The band got back together andperformed another batch of songs. At the end of their second session, they had enoughmusic to pick and choose from for the new full-length. "The songs, as they appear on thealbum, are basically how they were recorded as a live band."