Following the demise of Angell's band Post Stardom Depression, he formed The Missionary Position with an old friend and fellow Seattle musician, Benjamin Anderson.
When Jeff Angell and Benjamin Anderson began playing a Thursday night residency at a club in Seattle, Washington, they hadn't yet settled on a name.
Those Thursday lounge nights were billed as The Missionary Position, and Angell said people thought that was the band's name.
So rather than fight it, Angell and Anderson embraced what the steadily growing number of Thursday night fans already had—they were now in The Missionary Position.
In 2009 they recorded Diamonds In A Dead Sky and released it on the band's label The Boredom Killing Business.