the writing process of the band's third album started three years prior to the album's release, sadler has said he would take song ideas and riffs to bandmate syverson "to hash them out". recording for daughters' third album began in late april, 2009, and the tracking process was finished by june. in august, daughters had abruptly broken up. after finishing recording for the album marshall and sadler got in an argument resulting in marshall leaving the band. the rest of the band decided to call a hiatus, expecting marshall to re-join the band at some point. sadler continued with mastering the record and hashing out the artwork and even worked with artist, dave fisher, on a trailer video. stating he "was essentially trying to keep the band alive for who-knows-what" and "hoping [marshall] would come back or maybe in few years we would start playing again." marshall decided that he wanted to rejoin the band, but that sadler should be kicked out. this caused bassist samuel m. walker to leave the band. the band dissolved which lead to the band's break-up.