The Cactus Blossoms’ third studio album, One Day, is The Current’s Album of the Week. Local Show host Diane recently met up with the duo to discuss the process, and it got deep.

Diane: If we were to delve into really your mind as it writes songs, and as it hears it, what's that like?

JACK TORREY: It's murky, murky water. Sometimes a song just kind of appears, almost fully formed. Sometimes, for me, at least, I get little, little ideas or like, the start of a song. And I never even try to finish it. And that little seed just kind of like circles around for, I don't know, it could be months could be years even. But I've never worked on it, and then sometimes I just am able to finish it because something else comes up or some other inspiration comes up and kind of allows me to, like, know where that map is leading me. One of the songs on the new record is called, "I Could Almost Cry." And it's kind of disjointed. In a way, it's not literal, literally about anything. It's more emotional. There's plenty of ways you could interpret it. So I don't really even want to give mine but I think it got to a point where it was saying exactly what I wanted to say. And I don't know if it's even a good song. But I like that I accomplished that with it. So you know, I hope it's okay, but it is what it is now. And I don't know if that answers your question at all. But I guess sometimes it's just a meandering, weird thing like that. And other times it's kind of like, this is a--I'm writing a hit song.

PAGE BURKUM: But hopefully you're kind of mining your own self in some way. I think like, if you get a little bit of an idea even--if there's something about that, that feels good to you--that you're like, "Oh, this is--" It's almost like seeing that tip of an iceberg or something, if a little bit of a song idea comes where you're like, "I want to figure that out." Like what's under that? And maybe you feel it's done if you've maybe made something that you feel like is a part of you that you've let out? I don't know. It's hard to--I guess that's how you know if something's done or not if you just don't have any more ideas for it and you said what you want to say.

JACK TORREY: The whole thing is kind of mysterious to me still. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if I never wrote another song again because it's not really a practice of mine. It's something that just kind of requires like inspiration for me to even get into that zone.

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