Cartel announced that they would be working on a new album during the summer of 2008. The group also announced their transition to Wind-up Records from their previous label Epic Records . The band also mentioned “I think we’ve written or entertained the idea of about 30 songs at this point”, The album saw the band continue their use of tight hooks and bass heavy tracks with “The Perfect Mistake”, “Retrograde” and “Cycles.” The band began the writing and recording stage in May 2009. On July 8, the band announced that the album would be called Cycles . The album’s first single “Let’s Go”, was released digitally on July 28, 2009. On August 25, 2009, the band announced the track listing for the album and on September 6, “The Perfect Mistake” was released for digital download. The album’s pre-order on iTunes also included a special, bonus song otherwise unavailable titled “In No Hurry.”. Cycles was officially released on October 20, 2009. Their single “The Perfect Mistake” was featured in the pilot episode of The CW series Hellcats .
Officially released Cycles
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