“I always think about the band now,” says Potter. “When I wrote a song like ‘Apologies,’ I was writing for myself and a piano. I wasn’t thinking about how people I spend my life with were going to play it. It was a much more personal thing. And now I write with the intention of knowing what great musicians are capable of achieving. It was really fun for me to know that I could stretch much farther than just that girl-crying-into-her-piano act. I could write lines and riffs that I can’t play on piano but two guitars playing together can, and create rhythms and biorhythms and polyrhythms. All these things that I can’t do on my own. It takes a village and now I have a village.”
With the release of her band’s last studio album (2007′s This is Somewhere) almost three years behind her, Potter is anxious to roll out the new material with her new creative cohorts.
“The wait was so worth it,” she says. “It has been a year now since Benny and Kat joined the band, so we’ve had that full time to marinate in these juices and understand exactly what kind of band we are. Now that the juices are flowing and the machine is running smoothly, it’s clear that it took all that time to get here. I am chomping at the bit to get it out and to have the world hear the new thing.”
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