In an interview with the Dallas Observer, Old 97s frontman Rhett Miller discussed the band’s seventh studio album, “Blame It On Gravity,” the bands departure from the alt-country sound and get a little nostalgic. It has been four years the Dallas-based quartet released “Drag It Up” in 2004. According the band’s Web site, “Gravity“ finds the band “turning up the amps and returning to the satisfying crunch of its early records.”

“Bands go through a phase where they age, as people,” Miller says. “During ‘Drag It Up,’ all of us had gotten older and started families. That record was full of songs about mortality and aging. This record is more like a second childhood. More guitars, and they’re loud.”