 Musically, Brazil strove to create a sound as haunting and ethereal as the lyrics and purposefully blurred the edges of the sonics to create an aural tapestry that would envelope the listener in colors and volume.Fridmann was instrumental in helping the band achieve the spacious and expansive sound on the album, borrowing from production values not in mainstream use since the sixties and seventies to create a warm bed of sonics reminiscent of cassette tape hiss, and pushing the EQ levels far above normal to harness a level of volume not heard in most current music.Brazil was actually scheduled to go into the studio with John Goodmanson (Sleater-Kinney, Blood Brothers) in January 2006, but due to problems with their former record label they were forced to postpone recording the album until the following May.