copies of Skyscraper National Park to friends and independent record shops throughout Toronto. This was quickly followed by an additional 1,500 hand-numbered copies, this time with professionally printed liner notes. These copies were primarily sold at live shows. The critical success of these two limited-edition runs led to a full commercial release of the recording later that same year. In 2004, Hayden released his follow up album, Elk Lake Serenade, and toured North America with Oshawa's Cuff the Duke acting as his back-up band. He subsequently released In Field & Town in 2008, and The Place Where We Lived in 2009. In 2010, he produced the debut album of singer-songwriter Lou Canon, his sister-in-law. It was his first time producing material for another artist. In November 2012, it was announced that Hayden would release his seventh studio album on Canadian indie label Arts & Crafts, and would play five shows in Europe as a warm up to his performance at All Tomorrow's Parties Festival, curated by the National. These were Hayden's first live performances since his two-song set at a benefit in Ontario over a year earlier. On February 5, 2013, Hayden released his seventh full-length studio album Us Alone on Arts & Crafts, his first release on a record label besides his own Hardwood Records. The album is largely biographical in nature, with tracks like "Almost Everything" noting how family now takes precedence over art in his life, and "Instructions", which details what he wants done with his body when he dies. In June 2013, the album was longlisted for the 2013 Polaris Music Prize. In 2023 he released the single "Miss Fort Erie", his first new music since 2015. Promotion Often described in the press as somewhat reclusive and private, since the end of his international tour to support The Closer I Get Hayden has often limited his active promotional appearances and undertaken only small-scale touring. As early as 2002, friends were jokingly referring to his concert dates to support Skyscraper National Park as "the Hayden's Not Dead Tour", and there was already at least one Usenet group devoted primarily to tracking rumoured Hayden sightings. He also undertook virtually no promotional efforts for his 2009 album The Place Where We Lived. In 2010, an erroneous rumour that he had died was propagated in several online venues, including Wikipedia; The Globe and Mail music critic Robert Everett-Green has speculated