These United States just released their second album, Crimes, and are celebrating that event Saturday night at the Rock and Roll Hotel (doors at 8:30 p.m., $12, with Evangelicals). Rather than reviewing the album, we sat down with the band and listened to the whole thing together. Take a look and get a glimpse of what it was like to make it and how they think things turned out.

So where’d you record the album?

Jesse: Lexington, KY in a place called Shan Gri La studios. It’s a friend of ours named Duane Lundy who Mark, our colleague over here, is a good old friend of, and vice versa. So we had met Duane through Mark and decided he was the right guy to record a rock ‘n roll album.

You guys recorded some other stuff before…

Jesse: We recorded one album before this and that’s it.

Was there any goal with this one?

Jesse: To make it a live rock ‘n’ roll album with more energy, I think. Give it a sort of looser, more fun feel than the first album.

Mark: I think the first record has plenty of energy. Jesse did the first record primarily with Dave Strackany, who goes by Paleo in the music world. I play a bit part on a few songs… 30,000 people play a bit part on a few songs on the first record. But it was really more Jesse and Dave in houses, apartments, bedrooms. It didn’t feel live — in the sense that, like, when a band records a record. So I think the idea of this was to play it like a live rock ‘n’ roll band. And Duane has a giant — his studio is just one giant warehouse space. So we basically all just set up and recorded.