"Feel Good Drag" became the first single from New Surrender, which was the band's first album on major label Universal Republic.

[2] The single spent 29 weeks climbing the Alternative Songs chart before reaching number one.

It was the longest rise to the top since the chart's 1988 inception, breaking the previous record set in February 2006 by 10 Years, with their 27-week journey for the song "Wasteland".

[6] The song was originally released as "The Feel Good Drag" on Anberlin's second album Never Take Friendship Personal, in 2005.

In response, singer Stephen Christian wrote a missive for Jason Tate of AbsolutePunk.net to post.

Anberlin announced in August 2008 that they would be shooting a music video for "Feel Good Drag".

[9] The video was produced by Brandon Bonfiglio (Fall Out Boy, Paramore) and directed by Steven Hoover.

The video shows the story of a female character entering a bath full of black water.

[10] Throughout the video, a man (possibly one of the members of the band) is shown banging on the door to the bathroom, trying to force himself in, while the woman begins to submerge herself into the water.

At the end of the video, the man successfully breaks in, but is too late to save the woman, who has now disappeared into the shower drain, and all that is left of her is her dress.

The song received airplay on Sirius XM's Alt Nation channel, appearing at No.