During the recording of the album, drummer and co-founder Jason Schwartzman left the band to pursue his acting career.

[7] The music video for album's single, "Big Brat" cuts between scenes of an urban performance of the song to the band shooting a low budget zombie film in the relative location.

The album was Phantom Planet's first without drummer Jason Schwartzman, who announced midway through the sessions that he was leaving to pursue acting full-time.

"He finally made the adult decision between the two sides of him," Greenwald said of his friend, with whom he co-founded the group at age thirteen.

Schwartzman, the star of several films, including Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited, Funny People, and television shows like Bored to Death, can be heard on half the album's tracks, while the rest feature new drummer Jeff Conrad.