Now Hear This (The Split Squad album)

Featuring the lineup of Clem Burke, Michael Giblin, Josh Kantor, Eddie Munoz, and Keith Streng, it was released on January 21, 2014 on Red Chuck records and features contributions from Scott McCaughey and Peter Buck of R.E.M.

Not all songs took so long, "I Can't Remember" was created "...in about 40 minutes in a hotel room in India".

In an interview with Giblin, the band had been performing many of the songs on the album for nearly a year, but it took 4 months to coordinate everyone's schedules to book, in May 2013, a week of "summer camp", as producer Don Dixon calls it, in David Minehan's Woolly Mammoth Studios in Boston.

During that week's recording session, drummer Hugo Burnham, who lives in the Boston area, was invited by the band to sit in and perform with them.

Later, Streng's vocal and some lead guitar overdubs in "Tinker Tailor" were done in Andy Shernoff's studio in Brooklyn.

[5] Writing for Carolina Orange, Richard Rossi wrote that with this collaboration"...there is more collective genius in the making of this disc than any that’s come along in a very long time.