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Andrews provided most of the instrumentation for the record. Besides stunning guest vocals from \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLaura Stevenson\u003c\/b\u003e on third track, “Everybody Loves You” the duo are behind every sound on the EP.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThough the songs bely an immediate intimacy, Blum and Andrews have actually never met. They were paired up for a virtual co-writing project through their shared music publisher (Terrorbird), and became unlikely collaborators across a screen. From California and Wisconsin, respectively, they sent each other ideas, takes, and edits until they had fashioned the six songs that make up \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAin’t It Nice\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“It’s funny, this record is built around themes of travel and the open road and searching and connection, but was created in so much isolation”\u003c\/i\u003e Blum shared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMotifs of grief, longing, and missing the rambling life, fit quite naturally within the country genre. However, the shift in sound from Blum’s earlier work could be likened to a multitude of factors: the collaboration with Andrews, and Blum’s voice dropping lower, for one. 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