decided to take a break

In summer 2004, the band grew exhausted from spending years on the road and decided to take a break. The band promised the break would not be a permanent one in a 2005 interview with Concert Pipeline . McMahon said “I think for all of us it just got to the point where we were like ‘Let’s just go be our own people for a minute’– not out of a desire to leave the band or break up Something Corporate– quite the opposite. Let’s reconnect with all the things that spawned the band in the first place.” In January and February 2005, the band toured across the U.S. alongside Straylight Run , Hidden in Plain View , The Academy Is… , and Armor for Sleep . In April, 2005 the band played an outdoor concert at Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity at Indiana University as part of Little 500 festivities.