After Virgin merged in 2007, the band were now signed to EMI . Murray stated that the band had to deal with a lot of bureaucracy recording the new album, with EMI unhappy that they were working with producer Ariel Rechtshaid; who at the time was relatively unknown. EMI instead tried setting the band up with various “cheesy, cheesy, big producers who we didn’t like at all”. Ultimately, against their labels wishes the band did record with Rechtshaid and in March 2008 the band announced that Brain Thrust Mastery would also be the name of their new album. Garrett Ray handled drum duties for the album. The first single from the record, ” After Hours “, was to be released on March 3 in the UK. The album was previewed a week before its UK release on NME.com . It came out in the United States on May 13.
Signed to EMI after Virgin merger
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