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The album was two years in the making, is self-produced and self-written and is the album that the band were just finding out what music genre they were. The making of the album started in October 2003 when the band won an ARIA Award for "Best Dance Release" with their remix of the INXS song "Need You Tonight". Band members James Ash and Steve Davis were happy with the acknowledgment, but they both secretly wondered if they would ever get such success again, so at that moment they decided that they were going to be known for their own material. The album, unlike their first album, includes live instrumentation; live drums, live guitars and bass, performed by the same players who played live with that band. Ash stated that "We were at a point where we felt that we had gone as far as we could go with conventional dance music. And we wanted to have a sound that broke out of it. At that time dance music was taking itself very seriously and the music that we'd really been enjoying for the past couple of years had been rock acts. They had loads of energy, but they also had amazing production and really big melodies and the musical depth that I was after".
| “ | "We love our rock music and we love our electronic music and on this album we're meeting right in the middle", says Ash. "We're making music that will work on the dance floor and on radio. We're not afraid to have a pop influence, but we also wanted attitude. So that's why I'd say the Sex Pistols are the single biggest influence on the album. They were about energy and it's exciting to listen to them". | ” |
Change of their sound also came when in 2004, the band was taking auditions for a new lead vocalist. Australian actor Natalie Bassingthwaighte auditioned and the band accepted her and began she working with them straight away. Bassingthwaighte states "I wanted to bring my personality into the band". I wanted to colour it, to make it very rock, but also make the vocals very character based. I can be very outrageous, and the songs let me go out there and just explode". She became the lead vocalist on every track on the album except "Casting Aside" which is sung by Ash.
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