"One night we were recording in my bedroom," McMicken recalls, "and the concept was the three of us were going to write three different songs while sitting in the same room. It was in the basement, and it was flooded, and we were really stoned. We developed this thing about it being very swampy and psychedelicized. There was the self-perpetuating inertia of the concept, and, for the next couple of months, we became immersed in it."