While L.A. has been an inspiration, Gelber, and bandmates Taylor Goldsmith (lead vocals, guitar), Griffin Goldsmith (drums, vocals), and Tay Strathairn (keyboard) chose fresh scenery — a studio in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina — to record their third album, which has a more soulful sound. They expanded their worldview with a recent humanitarian trip to Rwanda, where the band helped the U.N. charity Nothing But Nets distribute life-saving bed nets to protect refuge families from malaria.