Includes bonus CD with 13 acoustic demos

We recorded the album in the Cabbagetown neighborhood of Atlanta at Zero Return, the studio built by Brian and Rob (aka Birdstuff and Coco the Electronic Monkey Wizard) of Man or Astro-man? Brian Paulson came with us to produce it, our first collaboration since Foolish. The studio itself was amazing. We also slept there in a dorm-like setting and stayed up too late. Like all our albums, we were trying to do new things to keep the music interesting for ourselves and people who’d been listening to all our records up to that point. I learned some things about string arrangements from Jim O’Rourke on Come Pick Me Up, and I wrote the arrangements for this one. This is our first and only full-length where there are multiple songs I don’t even play guitar on; we were trying to widen the range of what a Superchunk record could sound like. Continued trying to sing and not shout, a trend that started on the previous couple records which received mixed reviews from our fans. I was happy not to be shouting. (Please note that as of now I have returned to shouting.)

- Mac McCaughan