After a long wait, the final piece in the puzzle of making the next album is in its place. THE MEN wanted the songs, sound, feel and look of it to be just THIS WAY! It's an album with the same energy you've come to expect, but with more depth and clarity in both sound and content, and the band is rightfully proud of it. The first half of the album is a kind of "travel special", with songs inspired by the trips they've made -that universal feeling of leaving the cold for the sun (and the fun). THIS WAY comes in a lavishly extravagant sleeve, with pictures of the band (and other assorted historical figures) as custom made 28mm tin miniatures in a diorama on the front and back, and a colourful booklet with lyrics and holiday-snaps inside. Since their standing producer, Christoffer Lundquist, opted to go away on a perpetual world tour with Roxette, THE MEN decided to shop around for another studio to record in. They immediately fell for the renowned Yla Studios in Malmö. The band wanted the sound on the next album to be loud and organic, and to take care that each instrument should be predominant and have its very own character. Studio-owner Amir Aly somehow understood what they were rambling about and enthusiastically spent hours with soundchecks, microphone-tests and positioning, to get it all just so. When it finally came down to actual recording, the tracks where laid down in live-takes, all together in the same room, as always. They also invited special guests for some of the numbers: Sven Andersson brought his sax to "St. Kilda Beach", and Isabella Köhler Alvén sang lead on "Don't". Then, with 13 tracks completed and mixed, it was all sent off to Cutting Room in Stockholm for mastering by Anders "Limpan" Lindfors - the man with the acutest pair of ears in Sweden.