In an effort to push myself artistically (and to ape the artists that inspire me the most), I decided to delve even further into the electronic realm with this album. I never want to make the same album twice. I gain nothing as a musician, and fans gain nothing from hearing the same old output. This thought process ended up anchoring the theme for "I Prefer the Early Stuff".

People like to wax nostalgic about an artist's early offerings, often citing it as far superior, while the artists themselves would argue their current work is more sonically interesting, the musical composition often maturing with them.

This coupled nicely with what was going through my own head at the time: being well into my thirties, reaching the top of the hill of life and looking down the slope of decline, yearning for "the good old days", and realising that the best years of my life have yet to come.