 Shortly after the release of "This Beautiful Mess", Wiley left the band.In 1997, the group signed to Steve Taylor's label Squint Entertainment and released a self-titled album, which slowly began garnering attention from a wider audience in the mainstream industry.Although Placencio played bass on most of the album, he left the band in May 1997, before it was released, and was replaced by Justin Cary, who joined the band around the same time as second guitarist Sean Kelly.