Soft Speaker's first EP, Conditions, was released in April of 2009 on white vinyl (500 copies) and cd.  Philadelphia-based artist, Ian Eckert, was commissioned to create an original pencil and ink piece for the vinyl sleeve.  The band's bassist, Blair Douglass, designed an alternate sleeve for the cd version.  All songs were recorded at the band's rehearsal space in Chicago's West Loop, mixed by Darin Phillips and mastered by Carl Saff.  The cd version includes a bonus track, a remix of "The Great Brick Mosque & I," by the UK-based band d_rradio.  Gabriel Stutz contributed pedal steel to "Barbershop Quintet."  Writing credits are as follows:

Paul Foreman: Burden You, Barbershop Quintet, Danger Red & Breaking Bones

Nick Rocchio: Mercury Park & Don't Read The Rags