"The process of recording this album, it fell over a three-year span. We definitely weren't recording every single day," explained Aston to Radio.com. "Sometimes we'd just be working one day a week or one day a month or one day every couple months, because people were out of town.

"We just worked when we could. We did almost the whole album over at Travis' studio. We'd just get in there and write stuff from scratch every day, and it was nice because we all worked together on this album, beginning to end, every song."

The Transplants were formed in 1999 when Aston, a roadie for Rancid, was asked to contribute lyrics to a series of synthetic beats laid down by Armstrong, the Bay-area punk band's frontman. As the all-star group took shape, Barker was asked sign on as drummer. Since then, the band reformed and took breaks several times as a result of having to navigate the hiatuses of Blink-182 and Rancid.

"We've always had really good chemistry together, especially when it comes to creating music," said Aston. "We're all kinda on the same page. Sometimes it's kinda like a dysfunctional marriage but a marriage nonetheless."

In the band's early days, many of the Transplants' songs were simple odes to partying and having a good time. But as Aston confessed, the band has matured lyrically.