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“The time constraints worked in our favor, actually,” Wade adds. “We knew we didn’t want to take seven or eight months to write and produce the album, so we just went with the flow. My favorite experiences in the studio are the ones that happen unexpectedly and spontaneously. A perfect example on this album is the piano ballad ‘Learn You Inside Out.’ The three of us were trying to come up with new ideas all day and we were creatively tapped out and ready to go home. I sat down at the piano and came up with these chords. Then Rick started playing a drum groove, Bryce chimed in with a cool bassline, our engineer hit ‘record’, and we literally had the song done in 15 minutes! You never know when the inspiration will hit or that kind of magic will happen. But that’s what we love about what we do.”

Après avoir enregistrer 11 chansons pour le nouvel album tout le monde pensait que le projet était terminé.
Jason s'est esuite rendu à Nashville pour rendre visite à son ami Scott Faircloff qui tait alors hospitalisé en attendant qu'on lui transplante un rein.
Cet ami très cher à Jason est en fait la personne qui lui a enseigné ses premiers accords de guitare alors qu'il était plus jeune.
"Je n'avais pas prévu d'écrire de chanson ce jour là".
“Je suis revenu avec lui à l'hôtel puis j'ai essayé de dormir. Le voir dans cet état m'était inconfortable.
N'arrivant pas à dormir, j'ai finalement écrit Broken en 10 minutes ; les larmes me coulaient sur les joues.
Je n'avais jamais écrit aussi vite quelque chose depuis No name face.
Le lendemain je l'ai chanté devant lui et j'ai emmené une demo chez moi après."

Sur ce nouvel album, le groupe a travaillé avec le producteur Jude Cole :
"Like everything else having to do with this project, Jude’s coming on board as the hands-on producer came about very naturally and nonchalantly,” says Wade. “He opened Ironworks to us as a place for us to start writing, and as we got rolling, he helped co-produce some of the tracks. It just evolved from there and felt very comfortable. I’ve known him forever and he knows every song in our catalog, so he was actually the perfect choice. I also like the fact that he knows where to push me vocally. He tried to stretch us and help us grow musically as well. The end product is great and I truly believe Who We Are will take us to the next level in our career.”

“Révisiter Storm m'a rappelé à quel point les choses ont changé depuis mes débuts en composition.
Je rêvais de me faire une place dans la musique et je savais que je serais seul pour réussir ou échouer.
Tout à coup vous faites un hit et les gens attendent plus et la pression monte.
Je pense que si je pouvais revenir en arrière maintenant je profiterais plus des moments
car c'était plus facile de garder les pieds sur terre que maintenant.”

“The key to keeping a strong creative flow in spite of all the business aspects of being a working band,” he says, “is putting yourself in a cocoon or bubble and not worry about churning out hits but write what comes from the heart. Recording Who We Are, I felt more comfortable in my own skin that at any other time since Lifehouse got started. We don’t have to worry about where we fit in anymore and are really comfortable with ourselves. Since Bryce joined in 2004, this has really grown into a unit with its own personality and style.
We established camaraderie on the road and gelled as a unit.
This record defines ‘Who We Are,’ which is why that’s the title of it. The sound fits where we’re at right now.”

Sympa les ptites anecdotes sur l'enregistrement de cet album ^^