In late 2003, Hirner and Landle met Michael Nestor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine via an ad placed on a local music website.

Stahl continued work with Private Eleanor and The Beechfields Record Label, which released the first Seldon Plan EP.

The Seldon Plan started out by performing at non-traditional venues like art galleries and DIY spaces in Baltimore.

[4] During these performances they gained notoriety by inviting artists, poets, and filmmakers to display their work concurrently with the music.

[2][5] Throughout 2005-2008, the core line-up of Hirner, Landavere, Landle, and Nestor took on a busy tour schedule and released two critically well-received full-length records while supporting shows with Explosions in the Sky, The Stills, Now It's Overhead, The Octopus Project and Matt Pond PA.

During 2012-2013, Nestor, percussionist Frank Corl, and bassist Kresimir Tokic continued to record as The Seldon Plan.

Although thought to be a well-produced demo, the CD was picked up by a number of college and internet radio stations and earned the band some local notoriety including a review in Allmusic.

Songs from "Making Circles" were featured in a number of indie films, Current TV, episodes of the lonelygirl15 series, a T&C Surf Design advertisement and used in some early iPhone applications.

Coalizione del Volere was described as a return to the more angular indie rock sounds of The Collective Now and Making Circles.

The Big Takeover highlighted the EP as a "weekly top 10" noting, "Their brisk indie pop and angular post-rock has given way to languid, hazy dreampop/shoegaze..." .