after his popularity due to his performances on youtube and touring throughout much of 2007, mckee returned to the studio to record his fourth cd, "the gates of gnomeria". the album contains six new songs, four songs which had been previously release on mckee's "nocturne" album, as well as two cover songs. mckee spent the majority of 2008 on tour throughout the world, performing with other candyrat artists and promoting both "gates of gnomeria" and his collaborative album with don ross, "the thing that came from somewhere". he released a split dvd that same year with labelmate antoine dufour, each artist contributing eight songs to the disc; two of mckee's from "gates of gnomeria".