When Black Rebel Motorcycle Club released their third album, Howl, in 2005, the reaction was polarizing. Digging music that was from a different place was always there, we just didn’t know how to do it with any confidence until later. We didn’t know how to write all that skillfully yet. It’s like, “Okay, well, what the fuck am I supposed to do?” We didn’t know what the songs were going to end up being. Some remained strictly acoustic, and some became entirely other things, but we didn’t know any of that.