Delta Spirit Talk New Album 'Into The Wide,' Drugs And Bob Dylan

Matt Vasquez revealed that Delta Spirit began writing new album Into The Wide in their Greenpoint, N.Y. studio a couple years ago, but Hurricane Sandy destroyed much of its musical brainstorming.

DS was then forced to travel south to Atlanta, where they worked with producer Ben Allen.

"There was like 45 songs and demos and all sorts of crazy s---," Vazquez told Billboard. "We had this ProTools thing, and whenever you have your own ProTools you can end up in kind of a K-hole situation where you just edit and edit the song until you lose the thing, but you're always trying to rediscover it. Thankfully we were able to find our way out of that. It was just like, 'You know the song, you know a billion different ways to play the song, so just play the f---ing song.' They're all my little children. Each one's like an epiphany."

What does "epiphany" mean, exactly?

"Oh just s--- you realize when you're young, like doing drugs and being insane or being Christian and then not being a Christian, and getting older," Vasquez said. "Or like an acid trip I had when I was 14, which was what sent me from Texas, where I grew up, to California. I learned a lot from that specific bad trip. I went to the hospital, drank charcoal, the whole shebang. While I was coming down from the acid, there was a Scottish fireman talking to me with a huge red mustache."

"Language of the Dead," a new cut from Into The Wide, has some Dylan-esque lyrics, and that's not by mistake.

"The chorus was actually written a few years ago by Will [McLaren], and the chords were something Brandon [Young] was coaching his wife Heather to play on the piano, and they came up with it together," Vasquez said. "Then I started strumming it, and Will was like, 'I have a bridge, but you gotta write lyrics for it.' So I wrote off of antiquated lyrics [Bob] Dylan might have said."