Mt Desolation Interview with Blender.com

So you had the songs written, and then it was time to hit the studio. How were the songs recorded? Were they cut quickly?

Pretty quickly, yeah. The original idea was to do it live, or as live as we could. We had a core band of six players: Tom Hobden from Noah and the Whale was there for a lot of it, John Roderick from The Long Winters was there for a
lot of it... We had a core of six or seven or eight of us, and a producer as
well. And then others would just drift in and out.