Owl City, Matthew Koma

When it came time to record Adam Youngs third album as Owl City, the Minnesota native sethimself the following challenge: Over the past several years I'd become fascinated with trying tocapture magic in a jar through simple, concise pop songs, he says. I saw it as a great challengeto try to come up with catchy, unique, and memorable songs because it was a new method ofsongwriting I'd never approached before. I believe artists should never look back or repeatthemselves and this was a new frontier for me.