 This line-up played several performances and recorded a single in 1998 before Cossom and Agostini left the band amicably.Their departure caused the style of the music to become focused around longer songs with fewer sections, which gradually built up from quiet beginnings into overpowering crescendos and back down again.The band (now a three piece) released their debut album "What's a World Without Laughter" in September 1999 on the Toronto based Aporia Records label.