"I don't really see things as solo or not. Circumstances make certain things come to the front more. Circumstances out of my control, sometimes. The only work I do is to not be destructive as a result of these circumstances, and channel them into something else." So what were the circumstances? "Wish I remembered," he replies. "'It was all whirlwind, heat and flash'," he adds, quoting a line from Sonic Youth's Goo sleeve.