In 2008, The Front Bottoms released their first album
I Hate My Friends through the social networking website
MySpace. After the moderate success of the album, they released a follow-up,
My Grandma Vs. Pneumonia, in 2009. This led to the band signing with Bar/None Records in mid-2010. In February 2010, the band released an EP titled
Slow Dance To Soft Rock for download on their website. They planned to also create an EP entitled ''Grip 'n Tie
, but Bar/None pushed for them to make a full-length album instead of another EP. So they collected the songs off of Slow Dance To Soft Rock
and Grip 'n Tie'', and combined the two EPs into their debut self-titled album, which was released in September 2011. == Track listing ==