“Playing music with her was so different because I’d made indie rock before, but she wanted to sound like the Rolling Stones or Black Sabbath. And I didn’t know how to play like that. I didn’t understand riff culture or the blues. I was coming from a pop state of mind when it came to creating songs. So we started listening to a lot of Link Wray and early garage rock comps. That morphed into us becoming preoccupied with Kraftwerk and Can, which was the early direction of Glass Candy—us trying to do garage/disco/Kraut-type shit, which just ended up sounding like no-wave. Although we didn’t know what that was. When we put out our first record, people said we sounded like the Bush Tetras or the Contortions, and we had no idea what any of that meant. We were so isolate that we didn’t know what we were doing. Over time, we learned how to make disco music. We’d be into the Heartbreakers, the Stooges, and the Sparks record with Giorgio Moroder on it (No. 1 In Heaven).”