Despite achieving commercial success with their punky but slick third album, Coral Fang, the Distillers disbanded in early 2005, leaving singer Brody Dalle to ponder her future as a musician. She set down the bass and took a break from music altogether for a while to give birth to her daughter with husband Josh Homme. Returning to the studio inspired, she started laying down home-recorded tracks with Queens of the Stone Age associate Alain Johannes, and began making plans to do a project with broader pop influences, taking from childhood favorites Neneh Cherry and Tom Petty, a...