With the album-closing “Send For Me,” First Two Pages of Frankenstein ends on an ineffably hopeful note, one that surprised the band itself.

“I didn’t even realize it as we were making it, but the record does follow a sort of journey that has to do with letting go of attachment and then coming back to it in a stronger way,” says Bryce.

Berninger thought of his daughter when he wrote “Send For Me.” Referring to it as “one of the most unconditionally positive songs I’ve ever written,” he partly credits his bandmates with helping him to approach his songwriting from an unexpected and undeniably welcome perspective.