Their fourth album, My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go, was released in Europe and the United States on 29 January 2007 and in Japan on 14 October 2006, taking its title from the novel The Exorcist.
The only thing that made any difference was time 'cause I'd spent the previous couple of years screaming every single night and whisky and smoking and that was just a horrible combination.
It is however fair to say that the never ending financial struggle coupled with an almost superhuman ability to dodge the zeitgeist have taken their toll, ensuring that we just don't have any fight left in us.
In 2011 Cook formed Chvrches with Martin Doherty (who worked on Aereogramme's last album) and Lauren Mayberry.
He previously recorded, mixed and mastered fellow Scottish indie rock band The Twilight Sad's 2008 mini-album Here, It Never Snowed.