A new home and a new daughter
came with the recording of the indie-pop
duo’s fifth album, Re-Arrange Us (Barsuk).
But the triumphant kinda title track,
“The Re-Arranger,” hearkens back to
earlier, simpler times. “It started out as
a song about a guy I knew in high school
who was an abusive crazy person,”
says Gardner, 33, “and we ended up
somehow making it explain the happy
changes in our life.”

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