Recording started in Oxford

In late 2005, Brand New started recording their third album in Oxford, Mississippi with producer Dennis Herring , but later dropped him in favor of Mike Sapone with whom they had worked on their first album. On January 24, 2006, nine tracks recorded for the album were leaked to the Internet. Lacey was upset, saying, “No one likes to show their creation in mid-process, and those songs weren’t done. They were like blueprints. Just the plan, right? It put me in a state where I was under the impression that those songs had been wasted or something—that we had to go and write new things because those had been heard.”