"Well, my throat started hurting," Prindle said with a laugh. ""I got tired. Got older. I just don't see the point in writing the same thing twice — we've already done the yelling thing. We're just kind of getting to that age where I want to write fun songs that everyone can sing along to."

The band is recording Some Kind of Cosmonaut with Grand Rapids-based producer Mike Cervantes at Foxboro Studio. The album is slated for a winter release, but Prindle said the release date is based around some record label interest.

"We want to see what [the labels] have to say before we release it on our own," Prindle said. We've never been the band that's looking for a label ... I don't think you need them this day and age — a lot of times they want to control your music, and a lot of things they do, you can do online now. But there are still good labels out there, though, and that's why we want to hear them out."

Some Kind of Cosmonaut will feature 12-13 tracks, with a music video to be released "relatively soon."

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In a world ruled by the forces of musically shallow pop songs and four chord punk bands, one woman and her piano will stand up for the beauty of traditional ragtime and jazz. That woman is Deborrah Wyndham.

"It works to my advantage that a lot of people aren't doing the kind of music I am doing," Wyndham said. "Ragtime and jazz are kind of becoming a lost art. Instrumental piano on its own is becoming a lost art."

Wyndham has been playing piano for 24 years, and professionally for 11. She's released two albums — a collection of ‘30s and ‘40s pop music covers called Tenderly and another five-song collection of her own compositions called Piano Compositions. She's currently poised to release another album, titled The Beginning.

But don't let the jazz/ragtime label fool you into thinking you can listen to Wyndham's compositions during a study session.

"You can listen to it as background music, but it's designed to put a demand on the listener," Wyndham said. "It's not your typical massage music — there's a lot going on, and that's why it sounds classical at times. There's a lot of fast and slow dynamic to it."

While she admits that her music appeals to a primarily older audience, Wyndham says she'll also at times find it catering to an audience of college students.

"I want to do it, because I love it and I want to inspire kids to see that it's an option," Wyndham said. "It's something different that they can do. I think a lot of younger people are surrounded by pop, hard rock and heavy metal. I think that they want to balance that. I've met a lot of metal heads who admit to listening to Jewel or something like that."

Wyndham's upcoming album will include the five tracks featured on Piano Compositions, while also providing nine additional tracks. It was recorded at Family Piano Co. in Waukegan, Ill., and is slated for a release between mid-September and early October.

The band entered Skull Studios last February to begin work on its first full-length album. For the project, the band tapped producer Matt Tenclay, who also mixed and mastered the group's debut EP, Elixir. This time around the band is aiming for a "cohesive" feel.

Perhaps the best example of this is the three-song suite at the end of the album. It begins with the song "Inertia," which Wicks says is about staying in a comfortable, yet destructive, situation. It's followed up by "Foxfire," a track about the consequences of being "lost."

But the suite closes with the title track, "You Will Find Your Way Back Home."

"It ends with a very hopeful note," Wicks said. "We wanted it to be a ‘don't stop trying' type song."

There's currently no scheduled release date for You Will Find Your Way Home. The band's previous EP can be heard in its entirety at reverbnation.com/snakeoilcharlatans.