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The abstract drawing was created by William O'Brien and chosen by Droste, whom he has known since high school. Obviously, the leak didn't hurt us because we debuted in the Top 10. I think people find their own way of showing support, whether it be through an album sale or coming to a concert or even just telling some friends about it. But that said, the excitement behind it and everyone's reaction was really encouraging and exciting for us to see. And so it's just a bummer to think of everyone's first impressions of this album being this horribly compressed, terrible-quality version of the album. We knew it was gonna leak and we were prepared for that, but really, the biggest bummer for us was that we spent a lot of time and put a lot of effort into making sure that it's a really rich recording - recording it to tape and doing all these nice sonic details - and then it leaked and I remember listening to it and it sounded like an underwater YouTube stream or something. Releases ДЄn unmastered version of the album was leaked before its release. Although the release was exclusive to Europe, the bonus tracks were released digitally to the US in the iTunes Store. Along with the twelve original tracks, it contained an exclusive 24 page booklet and a bonus disc of Veckatimest tracks recorded in various locations. with Jools Holland on ДЄ deluxe edition of the album was released on November 2, 2009, in Europe. The band performed the track 'Two Weeks' Live in the UK on Later. They also performed 'While You Wait for the Others' on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on April 21, 2008, and performed 'Two Weeks' on Late Show with David Letterman on July 23, 2008.

In the interim, they debuted four new songs: 'Two Weeks', 'While You Wait for the Others', 'Fine for Now' and 'Cheerleader'. Nico Muhly collaborated with Grizzly Bear on this album. In the past, someone presented a song and like, 'This song is done.

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But we were really starting with a blank slate with Veckatimest, so there was sort of this question mark of, 'Do we even know how to write together and collaborate together? How will this work?' And we were pleasantly surprised when everyone presented their ideas much earlier on in the stages of development, which allowed for a lot of other people in the band to get involved in the songs. We knew it had to be done differently because Yellow House came from pre-existing songs that either Daniel Rossen or I had written, as well as a couple that we wrote together. Regarding the writing process, Ed Droste states: The recording of Veckatimest began in summer 2008 at Allaire Studios in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. 4.1 Jack Goes Boating and Blue Valentine.