Released Slow Motion Daydream

The band regrouped a year later to record their sixth album, Slow Motion Daydream , released in March 2003. Prior to its release, Alexakis and Capitol came to odds over the album’s first single. Capitol was thrilled about one of the last songs added to the album, a somewhat 9/11 -influenced “The New York Times”. Alexakis, however, had previewed a tongue-in-cheek ode to suburbanite housewives, ” Volvo Driving Soccer Mom “, during a solo tour in 2002, and had received a fair amount of media attention. Capitol eventually relented to Alexakis’s demands and released the song and video, but did not put much effort into the song and album’s promotion. “The New York Times” was released shortly thereafter as the second single with even less support from the label, and the album stalled after selling 100,000 copies.