In 1997 they released their debut full-length album "Under the Western Freeway" through Will, and, with the help of Howe Gelb, signed a UK deal with Big Cat Records – by then a subsidiary of Richard Branson's V2 Records – who reissued the album the following year. The album included the single "A.M. 180", which was featured during a sequence in the 2002 British film "28 Days Later". It was also used for the theme song for the BBC Four television series "Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe" (9 years later, Screenwipe debuted in 2006), and in an advertisement for Colin Murray's BBC Radio 1 show. "A.M. 180" was also used in television commercials for the Dodge Journey automobile. One of the album's singles, "Summer Here Kids", was rated as "Single of the Week" by popular British music magazine "NME", and was also used as the theme music for another Charlie Brooker-fronted show, BBC Radio 4's "So Wrong It's Right". The album led to an increase in the band's popularity in Europe, and a main stage performance at the Reading Festival in 1998. The album was only a success in the US when later reissued by V2. With the band busy touring in 1999, their next release was the compilation "The Broken Down Comforter Collection".