The experimental art rock studio collective the Book of Knots got together in the spring of 2003 around Matthias Bossi, Joel Hamilton, and Tony Maimone (the last two also run the Studio G recording studio together). Based out of Brooklyn, the collective's members' résumés were already rather impressive, each of them having played or worked with acts like Skeleton Key, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Shiner, Battle of Mice, Sparklehorse, Elvis Costello, Unsane, Pere Ubu, Frank Black, They Might Be Giants, and more. It wasn't until Austin's Arclight Records got in touch and offered t...