"After only a few months of playing shows to packs of horny spellbound hometown teenagers, we found someone crazy enough to actually give us money and invest in our career," says Mark of the summer of 2005, which was spent lacing tracks at Studio Plateau in Montreal for their debut album, Hind Hind Legs. The album was produced by Jimmy Shaw of the bands Metric and Broken Social Scene, and Drew Malamud (the Dears, Stars, DFA1979). Shaw, who brought the Feathers along during Metrics sold-out Fall 05 tour, says of the band: "Somehow in all their poppy grandeur, the Feathers manage to convey feelings I never even knew I had. Their music portrays the canopy of life with clarity and heartsmiles and yeah, I also completely relate to Marks self-hatred and Richards massive guilt."