Parker and Lily are a band from Athens, Georgia and who have spent some time in Brooklyn, NY. Parker Noon and Lily Wolfe have been a couple for ten years too. This album was so intense in the making that they broke up afterwards. The band still survives though. They have retreated to their neutral corners. Parker and Lily have played with Interpol and Future Bible Heroes. Their music has a lot in common with those bands. They are romantic and tragic. Parker's signature vocals have a lot of echo on them. Lily Wolfe plays the organ and makes a lot of noise. It is very intimate music. This album is much better than the previous ones. Before they were like a lot of New York bands who grew up on David Lynch and Nick Cave and wore suits. Now they incorporate more American roots music. Maybe before they sounded like this weird atmospheric band. Now they are like an American Arab Strap, very personal and very original.