their biggest selling single to date and second highest charting single after "Legacy", but Draper's refusal to promote the album led to the album stalling at #14 in the charts. He later admitted that whilst they were trying to make a "timeless record", he "just don't think we realised the record we were making until towards the end" and Chad also later stated that the album "just didn't sound like us because there was lots of keyboards". Several years following the split of the band, Draper claimed that he was demoted as the band's producer as the rest of the band were no longer comfortable with him producing and the label reportedly wanted to ensure the band didn't go off on another tangent as with Six, and was forced to work with an outside producer for the first time, stating that "the management wanted a soft rock album made behind my back for some reason and I got manipulated into releasing it" and that the band were "steamrollered into doing a commercial sounding 3rd album". Aborted fourth album and split (2001–2003) In January 2001, prior to the final single "Fool" being released off Little Kix, Draper informed the NME that the band were set to enter the studio in March or April of that year and that the band wanted to release new material as soon as possible. In April, Draper told fans through the official website that the band had recorded and mixed eight new songs and would continue recording in May. The band were considering their options as to whether to release an EP or to hold the material back for a full album. In August, Chad posted on the band's official website to inform fans that the band had abandoned plans for an EP and were now halfway through recording their fourth album, which would be "harder" than Little Kix and that they planned to release a single in December. The band's aim for the record was to make it as representative of Mansun as a live band as possible, that it sounded "like a live band playing in a room" but also that it had all the "creative sounds that Six had". In October 2001 the Mansun ansaphone service operated by King since the early days of the band went down. In March 2002 and with no sign of new material, it was claimed that the