'Gargoyle' was inching towards a more accessible record.
I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.
Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.
I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more.
The idea of turning an album into a living piece of art and adding new installations is really intriguing. It expands the journey.
I like to have an album arc that comes from an experience rather than a story.
'Babel' is a continuation of a project; it's not like now we are more theatrical. We've grown up, seen places, been places, and that is shown in this album.
Albums are chapters. They're part of a story.
We really wanted to create an album that had no boundary or limit to it. There's nothing to say that we couldn't release a song that belongs on 'The Stage' 20 years into our career. We want it to be an album that constantly grows with what we want to do, and that's what we did.
