 Initially, they decided on Virgin but, as O'Dowd explains Virgin, “tried to put a clause in our contract allowing them to buy us out if they didn’t like the CD" So, unwilling to take that risk after all of their hard work, they decided against it.“It was a tough decision for us, but we went with a smaller label that would hopefully focus on us more as a band, not just an investment” explained Larkin.The band then spent several months in studios in Los Angeles working on the record and a release was scheduled for fall of 2007.