Claude says:Anberlin's fourth album came just twelve months after Cities, recorded with producer Neal Avron at NRG in North Hollywood after the band did two weeks of pre-production — more time than usual for them to work out parts together. Stephen Christian wrote some of it after running away to a New Orleans café to escape the pressure of signing with Universal Republic, pulling in influences from the Iraq war, Revelation, and a friend's diagnosis. You picked it up the month it dropped in 2008 and played it heavily before it went quiet for over a decade — now it's back with "Retrace" and "Blame Me! Blame Me!" getting plenty of play.