John Grant, a man from Denver, sang in a band called The Czars. When The Czars Broke up, John moved up to New York For a change of scenery and found himself playing support to Flaming Lips and Midlake on a few USA Shows. Well they became very good pals and Midlake became determined, nay obsessed with helping John out, recognising like me that it was close to a crime that John remained unknown outside a very small cult number. So they brought him to their hometown of Denton, Texas, and so he lived there for some months, working with them all on his solo record, in the spare moments when they werent working on their own new album. Mixed by Midlake mixer Matt Pense.