After recording "In Defense of the Genre", Say Anything band members Max Bemis and Coby Linder worked with Saves the Day's Chris Conley and David Soloway on a side project named Two Tongues. The group features Bemis and Conley sharing lead vocals and guitar duties with Soloway on bass guitar and Linder on drums. Thirteen songs were recorded in Electric Ladybug Studio, Conley's home studio in Chico, California. Bemis, Conley, and Linder previously collaborated on a cover song of Bob Dylan's "The Man In Me" for the compilation album "Paupers, Peasants, Princes & Kings: The Songs of Bob Dylan" released by Doghouse Records in 2006. The group's self-titled debut was released on February 3, 2009.