Patrick Hallahan: [Evil Urges] was the most-physical album and recording process I've ever been a part of. It's an example of us trying new things and trying new sounds and Jim singing differently than he's ever sung before. I love that album to, death...(Democrat and Chronicle, August 2010)
Interviewer: Yet?
Patrick Hallahan: Evil Urges is very constricted, microscopic. We were kind of under a microscope, trying to push these things in a direction, regardless of whether it wanted to be there or not. My throat feels constricted just talking about it. But that's good. It sounds like how we were living.
In an 2010 interview with Post-Gazette Bo Koster also commented on the subject;
"With Evil Urges we took ourselves out of our comfort zone and tried a lot of new and different things. There were also a lot of songs to sort through and many different styles. We took some drastically different approaches depending on what song it was, so in that sense it was a bit more intense. That was the goal, though, and I don't think anyone looks back on it as a negative thing, just as something that took a lot of energy. The joy and satisfaction for me comes from the struggle and hard work, and I look back on it as an accomplishment."
