 During the middle of the recording process, Aaron Gregory's father was killed in a motorcycle accident, which delayed the eventual release until April 2004.In 2005, Giant Squid self-released four-hundred hand made/assembled copies of an EP entitled "Monster in the Creek", also under their own label, Tyrannosaurus Records.The EP was recorded mostly live and strictly analog to two-inch/sixteen track tape at the Hangar recording studio with engineer Eric Broyhill.