Key told the "Phoenix New Times" that the band had been dissatisfied with "HanDover"s production schedule, noting that it had taken them several years to produce the album. For "Weapon", they made a return to the fast-paced, one-song-a-day style of their early years. The decision to remake the song "Solvent" helped to set the album's quickened pace; Key said that the music they were making for the album wouldn't sound correct "If it didn't sound like something we had just made quickly, like in the old days".