Wild Light, the New Hampshire-bred indie quartet, recently released their first full-length album, suggestively titled Adult Nights. Full of bold, unrestrained indie pop, lush with harmonies and well-dressed lyricism, the debut album attests to the band’s versatility -- main vocals are shared between band members, instruments swapped between tracks -- and verifies why they’ve opened for big-hitters LCD Soundsystem and Arcade Fire. Having just completed a 29-city tour, we caught up with guitarist Jordan Alexander to talk touring, recording, and their (faux?) hatred of San Francisco.

What are the pros and cons of being on the road? It’s nice to only have to worry about getting to your destination, playing well, eating, and sleeping. I miss writing though, and I’m itching to get started on new songs. I just started one the other day in a hotel room. Contrary to what I’ve heard a lot of bands say, I find being on the road inspiring and conducive to new ideas.

During these hard economic times, are you inclined to gorge on fast food for every meal on the road? It is hard to eat healthy on the road no matter what, unless you can pay for a lush catering company to follow you around. If you’re just eating McDonald’s and then complaining about how hard it is to eat well on the road, you’re just a lazy idiot.

How was playing the Hollywood Bowl with Arcade Fire last year? Surreal. The Beatles played there. In all honesty, I didn’t know what to make of it at the time. I still don’t, but I do know looking up at those stadium seats, to the treeline at the very top against the sky, it’s something I won’t forget. I want to do it again, when the time is right.

Did you accomplish what you set out to on Adult Nights? We’re all very happy with how the album turned out. Personally, I would love to make an album in less time, with decisions made quicker, a little more raw. But for our first step into a real studio, this was ideal. We had a pretty small budget, but for us it seemed enormous. Our label was willing to bend in the end to make sure the record was the best possible debut we could make. We’re grateful for that.

“The Party (Oh, My God!)” makes me think of New York. Party atmospheres bring on a tendency to “learn to forget so much” as the song says. Do you see the same kind of thing in New Hampshire? It’s funny, I lived in NYC for four years, and I’ve never seen a breed of kid quite like that. Such energy and endurance. No matter where things were happening, there was quite often a desire to immerse myself in that moment, at whatever cost. The final outcome hopefully being freedom from my daily world. I think perhaps learning to remember is the last thing a teenager growing up in a New Hampshire town like mine wants to practice. In “California on My Mind” you chant: “Fuck today, fuck San Francisco, fuck California.” Whatcha got against San Francisco, bro? I probably wouldn’t even answer that question if you seriously called me “bro”. Everything about San Francisco is awful. Everything from the homeless kids with homes, to the hippie-land bullshit. Just kidding, I love California. I lived there for a moment, but it was the wrong time. But it’s one of my favorite places. There is a lake in Oakland worth seeing, and there’s someone there who made me question ever leaving.

Do you see Wild Light going more into the electronic/rock realm, polishing and honing in on that feel -- or bringing on more rock, with harmonicas and old grit? More harmonicas, more roots rock, more grit, more polished, definitely rawer, more experimental, definitely more rock and electronic, maybe even some of the same, definitely different though, but really, who fucking knows.