Caveman takes time to grow, collaborate

“It’s a big deal for us,” he says during a phone interview from Chicago. “It’s our hometown and we’ve always dreamed of headlining the venue.”

The five-piece indie rock band, which includes Matthew Iwanusa, Stefan Marolachakis, Sam Hopkins and Jeff Berrall, also will have some new music to unveil. It is releasing its self-titled sophomore album on April 2.

The band holed up in the Rumpus Room in Brooklyn, N.Y., to start recording in earnest with Nick Stumpf (who produced the band’s debut album) and Albert Di Fiore behind the controls.

Carbonetti says the ideas behind the new album came to the band while on vacation at his grandmother’s house in New Hampshire.

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“We were all in the barn and it was decorated with Christmas lights,” he says. “For some reason, that was the beginning. It lit a spark in us and we started to write new music.”

The album is the follow-up to 2011′s “CoCo Beware,” which put the band on the map in the indie world. The album also garnered high praises from NPR and Paste Magazine.

Carbonetti says the band grew a lot in the two years since its debut. Along with getting better as performers, the five men also became more collaborative.

“Matt still writes all of the lyrics,” he explains. “But when he brings in an idea, we’ve all got input on the song. We play to our strengths and it all seems to work out.” The band is on a nearly two-month trek across the country and Carbonetti says audiences have embraced the new music.

“It’s been very well received and we couldn’t be happier,” he says. “It’s a much bigger sound because we’ve added more guitars. We can’t wait until the album is actually released so the fans can have the music in their hands.”