The Winter Is Seemingly Endless (Interview)

Rivers: I feel like my surroundings affect my headspace when I'm writing... uh, for example, The Blue Album, all those songs in West L.A., just perfect, beautiful weather every single day of the year, pretty much. Um, it's very invigorating and uh... I think you can hear that joyful quality in the music. Now, Pinkerton was, most of those songs were written in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And a lot of them were written in the winter. And, the winter there is just seemingly endless, and... snowfall after snowfall, and then... mud, and... sludge, and slush, and uh... [laughs] Pat: It's a wear down... Rivers: I think you can hear that on the record, and certainly in the artwork too, you can just see it on the cover.