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Despite achieving commercial success with their punky but slick third album, Coral Fang, the Distillers disbanded in early 2005, leaving singer Brody Dalle to ponder her future as a musician. She set down the bass and took a break from music altogether for a while to give birth to her daughter with husband Josh Homme. Returning to the studio inspired, she started laying down home-recorded tracks with Queens of the Stone Age associate Alain Johannes, and began making plans to do a project with broader pop influences, taking from childhood favorites Neneh Cherry and Tom Petty, as well as contemporary electronic groups. As time progressed, her love of harder rock clouded her original vision and live musicians were added to the mix. Best friend and former Distillers guitarist Tony Bevilacqua was brought in as a co-writer, along with onetime Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore and Red Hot Chili Pepper Jack Irons. One of the songs recorded in their sessions was "Valium Knights," which was releas...