slow songs without a chorus just to prove we were more than this hit single. It tweaks your entire consciousness to be identified by only one song when you are so dead set on being recognized for all the other things you have to offer." Harvey Danger also considered their upcoming major label debut to be their first "real" album, as Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? was "bascially [sic] a bunch of demos recorded on the cheap". Writing and recording After completing work on the album's demos in February 1999, Harvey Danger travelled to Woodstock, New York in early March 1999 to record the basic tracks and some of the overdubs for King James Version at Bearsville Sound with Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? producer John Goodmanson. The band found working at Bearsville Sound to be "depressing" due to the "thigh-high" snow, and ultimately decided to return to Seattle to record the rest of the album. "[I]t felt like we were spending a lot of money just so we could say we recorded at Bearsville. It wasn't necessarily making us play better. So we went back home to do the rest." After returning to Washington, the band recorded additional overdubs for the album at John & Stu's Place in Seattle and at Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, to help give the album "more breadth, [and] some more colors". At each of the studios the band worked at, King James Version was recorded onto 2-inch analogue tape using two 24-track tape machines synched together, allowing the band to use 48 tracks in total. Recording was completed in late April 1999, and following this the band travelled to Los Angeles, California to mix the album at The Village Recorder on May 17, 1999. Harvey Danger initially hoped that King James Version would be released in August/September 1999, but owing to a series of corporate mergers and restructurings, the album was indefinitely shelved. Universal Music Group, whom had recently merged with London's parent company PolyGram in December 1998, had sold London Recordings' US division to Warner Music Group, and in August 1999 Warner Music Group announced that it would be merging London with its Sire Records Group to create London-Sire Records. The merger led to King James Version being left in release limbo after a contractual dispute arose between London and UMG over the band, which led to London losing the