[3] They received interest from the Promise Ring's previous label Anti-; Bohlen said they made a deal over the phone where Anti would pay for the two to record an album.

[4] By June 2003, Eric Axelson of the Dismemberment Plan, who had broken up around the time that the Promise Ring did, had joined In English, which would rename themselves to Maritime.

[4] Sessions for their debut album were held at Phase in College Park, Maryland, Inner Ear in Arlington, Virginia, and Polish Moon in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with J.

[11] In an August 2022 episode of the Talkhouse podcast, von Bohlen spoke with Jimmy Eat World vocalist Jim Adkins about their dueling careers and legacies.

When the discussion turned to Maritime and von Bohlen referred to the group in the past tense, he quickly corrected himself and clarified that the band was "technically still together" and that there was "another album in them".