IRS president Paul Orescan, who had heard their work as Alta Moda, offered instead to sign them to record a new album.
[5] They added Washington Savage, Jeff Jones and Owen Tennyson to the lineup,[6] and released a self-titled album in 1991.
[11] Later the same year, Johnson and Orenstein collaborated with Meryn Cadell on the non-album single "Courage", a song about the environment.
[12] Written for the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy,[13] the song was released on a split single with The Razorbacks' "Land for Dreams"[12] and its video was filmed at the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
[14] The label wanted them to change their name because there was another band of the same name from Youngstown, Ohio, but Johnson and Orenstein resisted, since they were already well-associated with that name in Canada.