 After selling out 500 copies of their second EP, "Intimacy", In Medias Res independently released "Of What Was", their first full-length album, in April 2003 to favourable local reviews.Distributed by Vancouver's Scratch Records, In Medias Res sold out their initial 1,000 copies of the album within a year-and-a-half, before re-releasing it under local label Anniedale Records on May 24, 2005.