“We said, ‘you know what, we still want to bring some joy during a tumultuous time like this,’" Olusola tells the Billboard Pop Shop Podcast (listen below).  "So, let's go back to our roots.

Let's do some covers that we're excited about, songs that we're interested in.”.

The At Home project will tide fans over as Pentatonix finishes plotting the release of their upcoming original songs (“we're really really proud of them,” Maldonado says) as well as a new holiday album.

1 twice – with both A Pentatonix Christmas and the group’s 2015 self-titled release, which was also the act’s first album of nearly all-original material.

We said, 'you know what, we still want to bring some joy during a tumultuous time like this.' So, let's go back to our roots?

Let's do some covers that we're excited about, songs that we're interested in?

So (we're) learning how to use Pro Tools and Logic and going on YouTube and stuff. Kirstie, remember you texted me or called me like, 'hey, how does this work.

Kirstin: I feel like in the beginning of our career, when YouTube was first a huge thing, we heard more from the artists, because it was such a new platform to be creating music and covers.

On how the group has new original songs on the way:.

Kevin: Before quarantine started, we actually had finished original (non-cover) songs that we're excited about.

And we're excited to start thinking about how we start to release those songs into the world….

Kirstin: Obviously we've always been on the road and touring, and so if you come out with an album, and then we have all these tours lined up, you're able to tour that music, to promote that music.

Because these originals, we're really really proud of them.

And we've only had one original album in the past.

But even from there, you know, we were like little babies.

And I really do feel like now, as people, and as what we've come through and been through as a group, and just how we've grown, just in these last nine years -- it's all really coming to life and being shown in this original album.

So, we're trying to just package it in the best way it can be for times like this.

Kirstin: … We're talking and finishing up the conversations on original music, which we're hoping to get some of that out before anything Christmas-related

But we definitely will do a Christmas album this year

I feel like, especially this year, that love and that joy, and that sense of bringing everyone together is really needed

And so, I feel like our Christmas album can be really special this year