Alex on Instagram: “We wrote TMIA immediately after writing Sleepwalking… It was one of those "okay, the pressure’s off” moments towards the end of the creative process. We felt like we had our first single and came into the session like the last day of school; no stress, no need to deliver anything specific.

Jack and I had plans to go see Paul McCartney that night so naturally I’d been listening to Sgt. Pepper’s all week…

Theatre. Concept. A bit of cheek coupled perfectly with weight and consequence.

Its sensibilities were bleeding into our creative process for the day and suddenly I was picturing this fumbling, stumbling mess, a caricature of a person hell bent on burning down everything around them for the laughs and the memories. (We’ve all been there at one time or another.) Andrew, almost ironically, played some plucky piano chords and the narrative just started spilling out of my mouth.
I think we must’ve mapped the melodic structure in one or two passes and the skeleton of the song was shaping up quickly. The unspoken rule was “don’t think twice”. We didn’t force the creative choices too much and we let the process kind of steer itself. I think we’d gotten as far as the second chorus when someone said, “where does it go from here?” For fear of getting stuck and tapping out, the only clear choice was “to the basement” and suddenly our plucky little anthem had a punk beat and some tempo… as violently contradictory as that felt, it also seemed to work nicely. “Don’t think twice.”

We buttoned up the lyrics, took a step back, and

then listened to it the entire way to the show. Jack and I looked at each other and, with some level of pleasant surprise, one of us asked, “did we just write track 1?”"