It’s in everyone,' says frontman Dave Bayley.

Weve been meeting so many people, Bayley explains.

Youre meeting, like, 100 people a day and theyre all telling you stories about their lives.

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The same might be said of the 11 songs onBeing.

Hes stuck living with mom and barely scraping by.

Heartbreaking, disgusting, and some really funny, just as Bayley promised.

I started wondering about who they are and what they do and how they fill their spare time.

I started making up characters.

I tried to be much more analog this record, he says.

This is more real instruments and recordings.

I spent a lot of time tinkering with synthesizers and guitars and whatever was lying around.

Bayley means it when he says whatever.

You get a weird Boink!'

Sometimes you get there and sometimes you totally dont, but you end up with something interesting as well.