The band received worldwide acclaim with their major label debut album, Vol.

II, released on September 25, 2007, and they gained their largest radio hit yet with the single "Ten Ton Brick".

The band originally composed of J. Loren Wince, age 15, as the main singer, songwriter, and guitarist and Wil Quaintance as a drummer.

The two sought other band members for years until picking up Steven Fletcher to play bass guitar.

The band's second independently released album, The Consumation was also written and performed by Wince, with Quaintance on drums, Shawn Sawyer on bass and given credits on the song "Unclean", with Brian Winshell on Engineering for "House of Cards" and "Velvet Rolls Royce".

The show was at The Continental in New York, where a friend of Lewis, Jay Silverman, passed the band's CD on to him.

[4] The next day, the band played a showcase in New York City, at which time they had spoken with several record companies including Columbia, Interscope, Island, Universal, Virgin and Atlantic, but nothing came of these conversations.

After their having major record label exposure, the band opted to re-release The Consumation as The Re-Consumation on February 19, 2008, in response to fans spending hundreds of dollars to buy their now-rare original independent releases.

Shortly afterwards, in April, Ansley announced his departure from the band, to pursue a career in writing and directing.

II did not prove to be commercial successes, and as a result, the band was dropped from Capitol Records.

On February 5 the new song "Numbers" made its debut radio play on 94.1 WJJO in Madison, WI.

[10] In August, the band announced they had signed to Carved Records, and aimed to release a new album in early 2012.

[11][non-primary source needed] The album was released in a limited quantity of only 2000, each individual numbered and signed by J Loren Wince.

The album included two bonus tracks; one previously unreleased, "Cellophane", and another, the original version of "Talking to God".