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Alla guitarist Jorge Ledezma, who co-founded the band with his brother drummer Angel Ledezma back in 2001, doesn't mince words when discussing the trio's inauspicious beginnings, saying, "We did everything you're not supposed to do when you start a band."

Among a litany of missteps and miscalculations, Ledezma highlights the amount of time they spent working on their debut (almost five years) and the amount of money they sank into the self-financed project (a figure he estimates at $40,000 to $50,000). "It was ridiculously expensive," Ledezma says. "We spent days and days at Engine (Music Studios) with no plan, which is something, like, Fleetwood Mac would do. It's certainly not what an indie band does, but we were big music geeks, and we thought that's how you made genius records: You go into the studio and just start working."

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