The Audio of Being/break-up (2001-2002)
After touring Beautiful Midnight for nearly two years, the band set to work on The Audio of Being. The album's creation came during a difficult emotional period for Good. While he struggled to deal with the band's success, he was diagnosed with sarcoidosis, a disease that causes lesions to form in the lungs, prompting him to temporarily quit smoking. Following throat surgery to remove a nodule from a vocal cord, Good stayed in a hotel for three weeks in Whistler to work on songs. Good wrote most of the album while unable to speak or sing. Good later wrote that he spent much of the time "trying to keep down food supplement bars, trying to forget the growing tension within the band, the high expectations of needing to produce 'hit songs' (whatever they are these days), throwing up, and trying to find some semblance of direction in my personal life."
The band entered the studio in late 2000 to record the material. The sessions saw a great deal of intra-band turmoil, with Dave Genn quitting the band before the album was complete. He returned a few days later, however, only to quit permanently not long after the album's release in October 2001. Following Genn's departure, Good dissolved the band in 2002. The band's last music video, for Anti-Pop, contained brief cameos of Priske and Browne, but consisted primarily of camcorder videos following Good, American race car driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and a kidnapped garden gnome to popular tourist destinations throughout the United States. Ian Browne appears at the end of the video as the owner of the returned gnome (information taken from "In A Coma" DVD commentaries).
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