You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs,
and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
The Lumineers released their second album on April 8th, 2016.
Their first album went platinum, and they spent months touring relentlessly in support of it.
That schedule took a toll on their relationship, but they ended up putting it into their songs.
In this episode, Wes and Jeremiah break down their song, Ophelia.
You'll hear their demos and a version that didn't make it to the album.
They'll explain how the final track is not just a product of what they put into it,
but what they decided to leave out.
My name is Rishi K. Sherway.
You're listening to Song Exploder.
My name is Jeremiah Freitz.
Yeah, my name is Wesley Schultz.
And we're the Lumineers.
Ramsey, New Jersey is where we grew up.
To prepare for this podcast, I was looking through my old files and I found this file.
It was this old janky idea called Ophelia, I think, hyphen Ramsey.
I can remember that moment being in Ramsey and it was really cool to find that.
I mean, especially to hear how unpolished and...