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"You loved &amp;quot;Cough Syrup&amp;quot; (remember the Glee version?) and &amp;quot;My Body&amp;quot; from Young the Giant&amp;#x27;s 2010 self-titled album, and now the California-based indie-rock band&amp;amp;#8212;composed of Sameer Gadhia, Jacob Tilley, Eric Cannata, Payam Doostzadeh, and Francois Comtois&amp;amp;#8212;is back with a brand-new album, Mind Over Matter, and an exciting nationwide tour. I caught up with Sameer, the group&amp;#x27;s lead singer, the morning after a private concert they gave here in New York City. And let me tell you, these guys have energy. After listening to their sophomore album, you&amp;#x27;ll feel reinvigorated too. Glamour: How would you describe Mind Over Matter compared with your debut album, Young the Giant? Sameer Gadhia: We still have the same voice, but we feel a bit more comfortable in our skin now. There are a lot of things we wanted to do on the first record that we were kind of unsure about. This time around, we didn&amp;#x27;t feel like we needed to be limited in any ways. Glamour: Where did you record it? SG: We first started writing this new record when we were on the road touring our first album and got a little tired of playing the old material. Then we went on to write in the four houses that we all shared together. We lived in a haunted house in East L.A., where we recorded some of the darker tunes on the record. Glamour: You actually lived in a haunted house? That&amp;#x27;s my worst nightmare... SG: A friend of ours had actually recently moved out of that house. We had visited him before and were kind of creeped-out by it, but we thought it was a pretty cool opportunity. We moved in on Halloween and had a party right away, since we didn&amp;#x27;t have any furniture yet. Some of the guys had paranormal experiences there. We&amp;#x27;d hear things breaking or heavy things falling from the counter when no one was around. Lights would flicker...things like that. Glamour: Creepy! So do all five of you still live together? SG: We moved out of that house in September, and it&amp;#x27;s the first time since we were signed in 2008 that we&amp;#x27;re not all living together. Glamour: Working and living together can be a dangerous mix, but it sounds like it worked out quite well for you all. SG: I don&amp;#x27;t advise it for everyone, but it was really important for us because of how personal our music is. When we lived together, we could hop into the studio at any time we liked&amp;amp;#8212;first thing in the morning or during the middle of the night. We didn&amp;#x27;t need any formal recording plan, which was what we were going for. Glamour: Do you have a favorite song on Mind Over Matter? SG: That&amp;#x27;s a really hard question, but the track &amp;quot;Mind Over Matter&amp;quot; from the album is one of our favorites because it&amp;#x27;s so different than anything else we&amp;#x27;ve ever done. It was the song that broadened the whole album and put everything in perspective. We&amp;#x27;re really proud of the record, and there&amp;#x27;s a lot of honesty in it that we think people will pick up on. Watch the guys rock out in the music video for their new single, &amp;quot;It&amp;#x27;s About Time,&amp;quot; off Mind Over Matter. What do you think of the new album?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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