Once More 'Round the Sun

The album was conceived at Thunderbox, the band's rehearsal room in Atlanta, and recorded in Franklin, Tennessee with Nick Raskulinecz, a producer whose earlier credits include Rush and Foo Fighters. Bill Kelliher said the band had stopped adding craziness for its own sake and was starting to write like adults. "Aunt Lisa" puts a distorted, robotic treatment on Troy Sanders' voice and hands its chant to the local garage band the Coathangers. Oakland artist Skinner painted the sleeve: four big panels, Brann Dailor has said, tracing a life-to-death cycle through the seasons and a lot of plants. It entered Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart at No. 1 in the week of July 12, 2014. First-week US sales came to around 34,000.