[3] Bartell recalled, "I think it was just a funny blip about Donald Rumsfeld having a secret hideaway, and it was on Fang Island.

[5] The band independently released Day of the Great Leap in 2007, followed by an EP, Sky Gardens, in November 2008.

[7] The album's lead single "Daisy", which has an electro-organ introduction and chanted vocals,[8] was played during a series of commercials promoting the MTV reality show The Buried Life.

[11] Ian Cohen in Pitchfork Media called the music on Fang Island "honest and life-affirming and infectious".

"[15] Their song "Chompers" from the album Major is a playable track on the video game Rocksmith 2014[16] Bartell began to produce new music as Mythless.