 "Sunbathing Animal" was recorded in 2013, over the course of three sessions.The first of these sessions yielded the EP, "Tally All the Things That You Broke" (2013), with vocalist and guitarist Austin Brown stating, “We had to kind of squeeze [recording] in between long runs of touring; whenever we had a couple of weeks off, we’d try to arrange a few days in the studio.The first session more or less produced the EP that we put out last year, "Tally All the Things That You Broke"; that was all brand new stuff, that we just laid down and got out right off the bat.