Soft Speaker's debut single, The Great Brick Mosque & I / Effects Will Show Soon, was released in November of 2008 as a free digital download through the band's website with a limited number of cds also produced.  UK-based artist, Andy Council, contributed a painting for the sleeve.  Both songs were recorded at the band's rehearsal space in Chicago's West Loop, mixed by Darin Phillips and mastered by Carl Saff.  "Brick Mosque" was written by Paul Foreman and "Effects" by Nick Rocchio.  "Brick Mosque" was later remixed by the UK-based band d_rradio and included on the cd version of the band's Conditions EP.