The Nude Party on their latest album, ‘Look Who’s Back’

Before The Nude Party recorded their fourth studio album, Look Who’s Back, the band sat down together to workshop ideas.

“If you make enough time and you have a fair process, everyone knows their idea is gonna get heard, and then I think, from there, you can let the cream rise to the top, which ends up being the record,” says vocalist Patton Magee.

That process is what’s kept the six-piece band, who started playing house parties in college, together over the last 14 years.

Their latest record pulls from familiar and unfamiliar sources, from Neil Young to Natural Child. The band switched coasts, leaving their studio in the Catskill Mountains for the desert of Joshua Tree so they could work with producer Michael Rault.

Today, the band — McGee, Shaun Couture, Alec Castillo, Austin Brose, Don Merrill and Jon “Catfish” DeLorme — join World Cafe to talk about the new record and, on the heels of their first lineup change, reflect on sharing a good chunk of their lives as friends and family while trying to make a living as musicians.

This episode of World Cafe was produced and edited by Will Loftus.  Our digital producer is Miguel Perez. Our senior producer is Kimberly Junod and our engineer is Chris Williams. Our programming and booking coordinator is Chelsea Johnson.