Paich tells Songfacts: "In 2006, when Falling In Reverse was released, we thought that might actually be our last album. To our pleasant surprise we still owed our record company one more. You don't know until you actually check."

The next problem was to decide its content. "You go, 'Do we just put together a lot of odds and neds that we haven't already recorded?'" says the keyboardist and vocalist.