An enhanced portion of the CD includes a story accounting the events leading up to the writing of the album.

[3] Following the final tour for their last album Stigmata High-Five, Fuck the Facts parted ways with their bass player Steve Chartier.

A few weeks later, Topon and Vil drove a van on a two-week trip to Mexico and back to write the new album.

During the recording process (the fall of 2007), little was mentioned on the album's progress; additionally, the band did not have any live shows scheduled.

On June 21, following a tour of Western Canada with Neuraxis and Gross Misconduct, Fuck the Facts posted two songs from the new album ("Absence and Despite" and "The Storm") on their Myspace page.