"To do something new or interesting with this type of music is very, very difficult," says singer and guitarist John Baizley. "You gotta have two guitars. You gotta have a bass player and a drummer. That's how you define rock music. So by default, yes, we're a rock band. But here's the thing: we've never really felt the necessity to be pigeonholed, and we've never really felt any inclination to be part of anything other than our own thing."

"It's still rock. But with a question mark behind it," he adds. "What we're trying to do is write a stunning, beautiful, powerful, emotional, artistic creative rock record."