Richard pointed us to RELEVANT’s interview with the one and only nine-toed member of the Square Peg Alliance, Andy Osenga. Andy describes the musical departure that The Morning represents for his solo work:

Musically, I’ve been such a big part of the folk circuit—a singer/songwriter with an acoustic guitar—and sometimes I just hate that. It can be really boring. Don’t get me wrong … there are guys like Andy Peterson and Randall Goodgame who can get up with an acoustic guitar and blow your mind. But Nashville’s got a lot of this three-chord acoustic stuff, and I really wanted not to do that. On Christian radio, especially, an acoustic guitar is usually the biggest thing in the mix and it takes up all the space. But I’d listen to old Peter Gabriel records, and old U2 and Pink Floyd records, and they’re so huge-sounding, because there’s not something in there that takes up the whole range of your hearing. So I intentionally started every song with a drum loop—which I suck at—and keyboards—which I suck at—and built around those. The guitars were the last thing to go on, even after the vocals.

The whole interview is worth checking out.