“The song Darth Vapor was born out of an improvised jam session in a small one-room studio in Montreal, says Ariel Engle . I picked up a right-handed bass hanging on the wall and started playing it upside down, because I’m left-handed. I remember it all coming together at once — Liam [O’Neil] on some kind of rhythm-generating machine, and Thom Gill on a soft synth. Later, Liam and I shaped the raw take, and the theme emerged. The song is about excavation, consumption, and lust — both my own seemingly endless need to consume, and that of the world’s population. This endless want in the face of a finite world of resources.”