Making of The Album
The album was recorded in January and February of 2004 and was co-produced by the band, together with engineer, Matt Lovell (Silverchair, Something for Kate, The Mess Hall), in a converted Masonic Lodge (Kingdom Studios) located in the inner Perth, Australia, suburb of Maylands. The album was mixed by Shaun O'Callaghan (John Butler, Eskimo Joe, Gyroscope) at Studio Couch in North Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia.
Braxton Hicks was the first album release by Jebediah following the band's status as an independent band; the band's longtime label, Murmur (a subsidiary of Sony Music Australia) ceased contractual arrangements in 2002. Bassist, Vanessa Thornton, has since stated that she was unhappy with Sony's promotion of the band's previous self-titled album; a history that also involved the band's manager at the time.
Braxton Hicks, as the band have explained, are the false labour contractions some women experience before childbirth, named after the 19th-century English doctor who "discovered" them. Mitchell was struck by the term when he read it in a medical book. He explains, "We saw it as an analogy for songwriting in that the songwriting process is like the contractions, and the end product, the song, is like the child. And you can take it as far as you want really."
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