Where do you go to get away from it all? To recharge your batteries? Everybody needs a place where they can be by themselves and contemplate the world. For some people, it's their bedroom. For certain Kryptonian superheroes, it's a badass ice castle in the arctic.
For musicians, it seems like secluded cabins are the getaway of choice. The most famous cabin album in recent memory is Bon Iver's cabin-y debut, but he wasn't the first. Neil Young famously recorded the vocals to Mansion On The Hill while standing in a bucket of cow dung.
Maybe it's the feeling of joining a grand tradition or maybe isolated cabins are just cheap to rent, but something about these rustic environments seems to draw musicians in, and it often results in some of their best work.
Among many other bands on the program today, you'll hear from Dusted. Their debut Total Dust was written in a cabin and, despite being recorded in the city, still has that sense of isolation and antiquity woven into its very DNA.