recording sessions started in June 2006

Recording sessions for another studio album, Five Score and Seven Years Ago , started in June 2006, and continued for parts of July and August. Some tracks on the album were produced by Howard Benson . “Four score and seven years ago” is the first line of the Gettysburg Address , the famous speech delivered by Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War . Thiessen had said that the title of the album comes from the fact that it’s the band’s fifth album, it is the first time all five of them are on a record together, and the band had been seven years since the release of Relient K . During pre-production, Capitol Records had a hand in what would be on the album, where as when they were with Gotee Records, the group was able to “do whatever we wanted”, according to Thiessen.