"This album was initially released in June 2008, but Rodney Graham was unhappy with the sound quality and immediately recalled it. It has now been remastered and repackaged to the artist's satisfaction...This Rodney Graham album continues his elevated brand of Smog meets Leonard Cohen smart but not too smart songwriter pop. The band this time featuring New Pornographer John Collins, Evaporator Dave Carswell, Kevin Beesley Hammond (Smugglers), and Pete Bourne (Copyright). Dan Bejar (Destroyer, Swan Lake, New Pornographers)) guests on vocals, as does Lois Maffeo (Lois, Courtney Love-the band, not the skank). 'Singer-songwriter Rodney Graham, like many other musicians, has a day job. When not making music, he produces art. In fact, he is a highly regarded, internationally recognized visual artist, working across a variety of media, including print-based work, sculpture and painting, but especially photography, film and video. Music often plays a part in his art as well, both as subject matter and content. But Graham's interest in music isn't secondary to his art. Instead, it often seems that he would rather talk about, listen to and actually make music than almost anything else. As a guitarist and songwriter for the UJ3RK5, which included other now-famous artists Jeff Wall and Ian Wallace along other Vancouver notables, he was an active member of the Vancouver post-punk and new wave music scene of the 1970s. Breaking to become established as an artist, he returned to music in the 1990s as a guitarist for the pop-punk 'super group' Volumizer with other early Vancouver punk and new wave peers Bill Napier-Hemy of the Pointed Sticks and Jade Blade of the Dishrags. He has been steadily making music since, releasing many singles, EPs and full-length recordings, both self-produced and in conjunction with various galleries internationally, as well as playing to support these releases, often as a guest of the same galleries.'" -- distributor's statement.