Art & Creativity Quote by James Young

There is a particular kind of defensiveness baked into “Yes, indeed, in fact”: the preamble of someone who’s been asked the question a hundred times and still feels the need to prove he’s not cheating. James Young isn’t just describing a production choice; he’s negotiating a contract with an audience that treats “the original feeling” like sacred property. In rock, nostalgia isn’t a vibe, it’s a standard of evidence.

The phrase “go out of our way” is the tell. Fidelity here is labor, not accident. It implies restraint: resisting newer tools, newer tastes, newer selves. Young’s focus on “sonic and musical pallet” (misspelling aside) frames the band’s past as a deliberate canvas, something authored and therefore worth preserving. That’s a subtle flex. He’s not saying, “We used to sound like that”; he’s saying, “We chose to sound like that.” The past becomes craft, not mere era.

The subtext is the anxiety of legacy acts: how to keep touring, reissuing, or revisiting material without sounding like a tribute band to your own catalog. “Original feeling” is also code for the hard-to-measure stuff fans police most aggressively - the thickness of guitars, the dryness of drums, the space around the vocal - the emotional math of a record that got fused to someone’s adolescence.

Young’s intent, then, is reassurance with a side of authorship. He’s signaling that the band understands what listeners actually miss: not just the songs, but the texture of the time.