Recording of "We Have You Surrounded", the fourth In The Red LP, began in November 2006 as a five-song EP. The length of time since the band's last full-length, 2003's "Dangerous Magical Noise", led to the decision to finish it as an LP, once again postponing the bubblegum record. Recording resumed in the summer of 2007, and "We Have You Surrounded" was released in February 2008. Far from being bubblegum, the album's themes are dark. The song "Leopard Man at C & A" features lyrics taken from comic book writer Alan Moore's poem of the same name, (described by Collins as "a fabulous take on urban paranoia").