How much of "Serphantine Gallery" is comprised of material written especially for the album, and how much is older?

Susan: "There's a couple of songs from "Fable," our first demo, that was just Tina and I. On that one, it came out in like 91, I think there was 3 songs on there. We put two songs from our second demo, which was "elegy". We rerecorded and Robin, our old guitar player, is playing guitar on that. The rest of it is new material, which isn't new anymore at all."

How would you compare the older material with the more recently written songs?

Susan: "Its very different because it was so fresh for us and we were really young. Like I said, we had all this energy that we needed to get out, so like I said it just came out like diarrhea. With "elegy," we were working with other people, at more of an angrier state at that point. With "Fable," it was all about fairies and really magic and frilling and beautiful sounding. It was also that I was doing all the music, so it was really beautiful and frilling sounding. When we started playing with our first guitar player, we started getting that guitar edge and we were working with another drummer at one point so we were really getting that live, more kind of rock/aggressive feel and Tina and I were also feeling aggressive and a little angry. It was just more dark and angry sounding that whimsical. Then the newer material is kind of a mixture of the two."