Nearly all of these songs were written after we moved to Winnipeg in late 2009, where we named our apartment “Stalingrad”, inspired by the desolate feelings attached to the name. We saw these dooms-day feelings reflected in ourselves and our surroundings in the Canadian city’s barren, beaten core. Our trying and at times emotionally devastating experiences appeared in our music, so close to ourselves and our lives together, and the former name of the Russian, once war-gutted city embodies to us the feelings we found in ourselves and our music during the creation of these songs.