Cheap Trick's 20th studio album In Another World arrived Friday, and with it, a reminder of the endurance of one of rock's most beloved bands.

Much has been made of Cheap Trick's creative output in recent years. In Another World is the band's fourth new album in five years.

Guitarist Rick Nielsen and bassist Tom Petersson attribute their band's ongoing creative motivation to the positive vibes and mutual admiration within the band over the past decade. It's easy to write new material in that environment, they say.

Speaking of the album with Q104.3 New York's QN'A, Nielsen and Petersson recalled the fast pace of their early years in the '70s and '80s. The pair say they usually enjoyed the hustle of recording an album, touring and then making the next one; it wasn't imposed on them.

The only drawback was that they were usually on the road when their albums were released. If they wanted to hear the final product before getting back home, they'd have to find a record store.

"We’d finish [an album] and then we’d go on tour," Nielsen says. "Months later it comes out and if we’re on the road, we don’t have a record player to hear it on anyhow!"

"And of course we never got them in advance," Petersson added. "I’ve purchased every record we’ve ever made because there’s no way we’d get them — God forbid we get them ahead of time. We don’t even get them in a timely manner like everyone else. A couple months later, it’s like a Christmas card."

Nowadays, pandemic-aside, things are much easier for artists who just want to create something they enjoy, which is exactly what Cheap Trick still is more than 44 years since its debut.

An excerpt of this conversation was included in a Feb. 9 QN'A feature; you can read the entire conversation below!

For more on In Another World, go here.