Claude says:By 2014, 311 had left the major-label system and reunited with Scotch Ralston — the producer behind fan favorite Transistor — for their first fully independent studio album since the early '90s. The band leaned into darker lyrical territory while chasing the eclectic energy that made their late-'90s work click. You gave it a spin in late 2024, thirty years after their heyday, and "Sand Dollars" stuck around for a few plays, but the album never quite landed.