piecemeal way, multitrack, records were done in more of a piecemealway, multitrack, and piecemeal way, multitrack, and sometimes piecemealway, multitrack, and sometimes the songs wouldn t even be written when an artist would come into the studio. song5 would be built up piece by piece, layered, and things like that. which was a very cool proce55, like that. which was a very cool process, and the first two records i did with david were very much in that vein. but this time we thought we would go more of an old school route and rehearse the band. the band would then go out and perform and kind of get to know each other really well musically and get on that wavelength together. we did that by playing glastonbury together and bbc radio theatre and performed a couple of toy songs then. after that we came back to new york, took a couple of days off and then went right into the studio to start recording them. and it was really quite different, as well, mu5ically, because we were all on such a