On March 22, 2013, it was announced via Toad the Wet Sprocket’s Facebook page that recording of the new album had been completed. The album was produced and mixed by Mikal Blue at Revolver Studios in Thousand Oaks, California . On June 5, 2013, the band announced the first new single in 16 years on Rolling Stone’ s website titled “New Constellation”. An album of the same name was released on the band’s own Abe’s Records on October 15, 2013. The title song of the album refers to astronomy and includes a litany of saints. Phillips has said that the named saints refer to artists who suffer from mental illnesses.. The band marketed the new album via the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter . The band initially set a fundraising goal of $50,000, expecting it to take about two months to raise that amount. Instead, fans contributed more than $50,000 in less than 20 hours. When the Kickstarter campaign finally came to a close, they had raised a total of $264,762. The band kicked off their new album with a release party for Kickstarter supporters at The Palm restaurant in Los Angeles, California, on August 23, 2013, followed immediately by a live performance at the nearby Troubadour music venue.
New album and Kickstarter success
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