Trivia / The Absence

• Development Hell: A Gift for the Obsessed, which also had something of a Troubled Production. After Enemy Unbound and the first year or so of touring on the album, the band started to fall apart and stopped touring; outside of hometown shows, they were barely active until 2014, and while "Oceans" and their spring 2014 East Coast run offered a brief spark of life, they disappeared again and lost another guitarist in 2015. While they never officially called it quits, they were definitely on the back burner while Jamie Stewart and Jeramie Kling worked on other projects, and while they came back with a new lineup and a new single in 2016, the rest of the album wasn't done until well into 2017 and finally saw a release in March of 2018.