The album itself was written in about a week in August of 2004. I had a sixteen-track in my room that I was using to demo Alkaline Trio songs, and once I fell in love with Joe's songs, I thought, I could write lyrics to these so easily.' Even without lyrics I could tell they were amazing songs and said that we should start writing together. 'So one day were both hanging out listening to records and Joe pulls out this cassette he had recorded with just these instrumental tracks. 'We're both music nerds,' Skiba explains.
The friendship that spawned Patent Pending, the debut release from Heavens, began several years back when Matt Skiba moved to Los Angeles from Chicago, and wound up becoming housemates with Josiah Steinbrick, himself an East Coast native.