Plastic Explosives contains 12 songs and a half-dozen interludes. It was produced by Beauty Pill's Chad Clark (who recently produced Wilderness' debut record) and the group at Silver Sonya and the legendary Inner Ear in Arlington, VA as well as in the Washington, D.C.-based band's National Crayon Museum studio. Plastic Explosives broadens the five-piece's signature "late-night" sound, marrying a mid-afternoon pop immediacy that evokes Simon and Garfunkel, the Shins, and the Dismemberment Plan with a narrative angle that could only come from a frustrated short-story writer and former ad pitchman. The record's six interludes quote from and hint at the actual songs, suffusing the project with music that recalls gems like Pet Sounds or the Hang-Ups' Second Story.