Begin recording debut album

The group began recording their debut studio album in October 2007, at Red Bull Studios in Santa Monica . The album titled, Whisper War was released on April 29, 2008, and was produced by Matt Squire . The album’s lead single “I’ll Run” was the first song they wrote as a band, which DeLeon describes as a “good representation” of the group and their songs.” By February 15, 2008, the song received over 300,000 hits on the band’s MySpace page. “One of Those Nights” was released as the album’s second single on March 25, 2008. The song features Brendon Urie of Panic! at the Disco and Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy , which was also co-written by Stump. The video for “One of Those Nights” features members of both Panic! at the Disco and Fall Out Boy. On October 30, they released a music video for their third single ” Bounce “, through the Fueled by Ramen YouTube page. The song peaked at number 69 on the defunct US Billboard Pop 100 Airplay chart. Whisper War debuted on the US Billboard 200 at number 108, as well as number one on the US Heatseekers Albums chart. As of October 2009, the album’s sales stood at 67,000. To date, the album has sold over 100,000 copies in the United States.