[1] Soon after the group signed with Deep Elm Records, appearing on their Emo Diaries series before issuing their debut LP, Letterbox, late in 1998.
The group quickly issued two more releases, Fallen Star Collection[2] and the EP Trying to Figure Each Other Out, in successive years.
In the same year, an previously unreleased song, "Little Birds and Sparrows", was put onto the compilation album "Take Action!
[4][5] The members of Brandtson, minus Jared Jolley, reformed to the small garage rock project Swarm of Bats.
[10] Vocalist Myk Porter and Guitarist Matt Traxler were originally in the band Six Feet Deep.