"What we're doing exists within a certain canon of people who push the limits both in our lives outside of the band and in the creative process," the singer says. "The theme lyrically of this album was reaching for decadence and meeting a certain level of collapse in that process. It's showing two sides of a coin, what can happen."
Still, Clifford's quick to point out, interpretation, as in all the hedonistic arts, is the key.
"We're not too concerned with people really getting it," he says. "That's up to people's decisions. We certainly wouldn't want to be pretentious, or overanalyzing. We like having different layers that people can read into -- not giving everything away and having a little mystery involved."
