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"Armed for the first time with a major-label budget, Nashville duo JEFF the Brotherhood found themselves with a considerably longer timeframe to cut Hypnotic Nights, the just-released follow-up to their 2011 scuzz-rock breakthrough, We Are the Champions. But as guitarist-singer Jake Orrall tells Rolling Stone, the band couldn&amp;apos;t slow down the recording process. &amp;quot;We tried to stretch it out and keep working,&amp;quot; he says with a wry chuckle. &amp;quot;But we were done pretty quick. Hopefully next time we can try and take our time more.&amp;quot;\r\nIt&amp;apos;s unlikely. JEFF the Brotherhood crank out songs at a lightning-fast clip &amp;#x2013; the entirety of Hypnotic Nights, the seventh LP by the 26-year-old Jake and his drummer brother Jamin, 24, was recorded over seven days at Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach&amp;apos;s Easy Eye Studios in Nashville, only a short walk from Jake&amp;apos;s house. Jake says he frankly doesn&amp;apos;t understand what takes bands so long to record new music. &amp;quot;You play songs live all the time,&amp;quot; he explains. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s not that hard.&amp;quot;\r\nHypnotic Nights is a loose collection of beer-swigging, backyard-BBQ rock &amp;amp; roll delivered with a sense of humor. On opener &amp;quot;Country Life,&amp;quot; for example, Jake makes a direct demand: &amp;quot;I want a place where I can smoke meats.&amp;quot;\r\n&amp;quot;When we recorded that song we went to do the vocals, I was like, &amp;apos;Alright, don&amp;apos;t laugh at me when I sing this first line,&amp;apos;&amp;quot; he recalls. &amp;quot;And of course Jamin burst out laughing.&amp;quot; Innuendo aside, he doesn&amp;apos;t see why smoking meats is so amusing. &amp;quot;I like to smoke meat a lot,&amp;quot; he says matter-of-factly. &amp;quot;We usually, like, do meat racks and ribs one day at the studio. I like to smoke whole chickens. I like to smoke pork tenderloins and beef ribs and pork ribs. And sometimes I&amp;apos;ll do the whole roast beef, like a whole six-pound beef roast.&amp;#x201D;\r\nOther cuts on Nights, like the Auerbach-produced &amp;quot;Sixpack,&amp;quot; venture into feel-good territory. But some of the band&amp;apos;s older tunes &amp;#x2013; three songs on the album were recorded several years ago &amp;#x2013; dig deeper. On &amp;quot;Wood Ox,&amp;quot; a whirring, synth-fueled riff-rocker that Jake originally wrote for a solo project when he was 19, he pleads, &amp;quot;Oh, bring the clouds, let it rain and flood and help the dead decompose.&amp;quot;\r\nWhile he knows he should be talking about the album, Jake admits he can&amp;apos;t stop laughing about the Jack White-orchestrated, one-off song that JEFF the Brotherhood recorded last summer with Insane Clown Posse for Third Man Records &amp;#x2013; &amp;quot;Leck Mich Im Arsch,&amp;quot; on which the Orrall siblings rock over a Mozart cut while the face-painted shock-rappers go buck wild. &amp;quot;All in all, it was a pretty hilarious day,&amp;quot; Orrall recalls. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s funny because we got a lot of shit for it, because people were taking it seriously. Like, &amp;apos;What the hell? I don&amp;apos;t understand.&amp;apos; Really all we were doing is joking around. It was pretty bizarre.&amp;quot;\r\nListen to JEFF the Brotherhood&amp;apos;s Hypnotic Nights below:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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