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Published: October 5, 2011
Back in 2010, Portugal. The Man (intentionally punctuated) got roughed up by Texas and were better for the wear. Sort of. The band booked the famed Sonic Ranch recording studio in Tornillo, near El Paso but nearer to Mexico. The Portland-by-way-of-Wasilla (yes, that Wasilla) quartet couldn’t unite their vision in the studio. “Every time someone posed an idea, another person said, ‘No, I don’t like that,’” said drummer Jason Sechrist, 31. “It was a ‘too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen’ situation.”