In the summer of 2011, singer and songwriter Michael Ian Cummings met English guitarist Josh Hubbard at a party in Los Angeles.
The album was recorded by John Hill in the API room at Greenwich Village's Electric Lady Studios.
Band members Michael Ian Cummings and Noah Rubin, both from Boston, were located in the Los Angeles area when they began making music together as singer and drummer of The Dead Trees.
[1][2] In 2012, Cummings and Rubin began sending demos back and forth to London to future member Joshua Hubbard, who then had played guitar for The Paddingtons and Dirty Pretty Things.
Di Fiore also produced and engineered the Skaters singles "Save Her Something Special", "Mental Case" and "Head On to Nowhere".