Can I Keep This Pen?

"Can I Keep This Pen?" pushes the limits more than anything we've recorded before in terms of what a hip hop song might sound like, what a rock song might sound like, and what Northern State might sound like. The album includes songs about our friendship ("Better Already"), our president ("Cowboy Man"), the apathy that surrounds us ("Cold War"), as well as what may be the first Northern State love song ("Away Away"). Our classic old school hip hop sound runs through the album, weaving its way through a new electro-rock current.