in the summer of 2004 the band released the "generation" 7" and 12" eps. after touring for most of 2005 the band took on david eliade as a quasi-full-time manager/promoter. in early 2006 eliade began shopping demos of songs from the planned "hidden world" album to labels, ending with the band signing to jade tree records for an early fall 2006 release of the album. jade tree is distributed by touch & go which in turn has a distribution agreement with ada (warner music group). jade tree licensed the vinyl version to deranged records, which released it as a double album in november 2006.