Two more days of recording happened in Auckland in July shortly before "the band disintegrated". Some of their last shows together were their first in China. After an "amazing...but really gruelling" tour Lachlan Anderson left the band and moved to Melbourne. Prain and Wilson also needed a break, which ended up lasting nine months. "Having been touring almost non-stop for six years when they returned to NZ in June [2011], despite having an album's worth of songs under their belt, they thought Die!Die!Die! was finished. Anderson wanted to move to Melbourne, and Prain and Wilson were sick of each other too."- New Zealand Herald, 12 July 2012  As well as being under personal pressure ("We were so close, and it gets to the point where you just need a break. And we all wanted new things from our lives,") the band were unhappy with their Flying Nun contract. With no band and "Harmony" still not released, Wilson stepped away from full-time musicianship. He took a job to pay debt, and Die! Die! considered themselves finished. They cancelled shows in 2011, including what would have their first appearance in Russia. During this hiatus, Wilson met bFM station manager Manu Taylor, who became the band's manager and encouraged Wilson to return to the "Harmony" recordings. “The band was sick of each other and ended. I finished "Harmony" on my own and there was no DDD for nine months. I didn’t know if I could be bothered releasing an album with no band. Then Manu Taylor put the pieces back together.” - Andrew Wilson, AudioCulture interview  Wilson, working without a band, took a different approach to "Harmony" than Die! Die!'s previous albums. ""Harmony", that was when the band wasn’t really around. I was just working on my own with different people. I recorded the vocals with Shayne Carter in Dunedin and then re-recorded the vocals in Tasmania and then Chris Townsend, who mastered this album, he really encouraged…not my indulgence, but encouraged what I was doing on guitar in particular. And I think that worked really well." - Andrew Wilson, 2018  When Die! Die! reformed in early 2012, Michael Logie (The Mint Chicks, F in Math), whom the band had already known for years, became the new bassist. He joined only ten days before playing his first live show.