"Ben and I took a month and a half to write songs in a tiny cabin in upstate New York, close to Woodstock," VanWyngarden explained.
Afterward, they took those songs to Malibu, where they joined forces with legendary British psych-rocker Pete "Sonic Boom" Kember and Jennifer Herrema, co-founder of the American indie group Royal Trux, to complete the sessions for their sophomore release, which VanWyngarden says will be called Congratulations.