Background
Autolux produced Transit Transit themselves with guitarist/vocalist Greg Edwards serving as engineer. Most of the record was recorded at Space 23, the band's makeshift studio in their rehearsal room near downtown Los Angeles. A few drum tracks - "Highchair", "Spots" and "The Science of Imaginary Solutions" - came from an earlier session with engineer John Goodmanson. The title track (the last song to be recorded) was recorded in Denmark by Edwards, using a virtually unplayable upright piano and a sample of a coffin-style freezer found in a nearby basement, and then finished back in Los Angeles.
"Audience No. 2" was self-released on May 21, 2008 to college radio while the band continued to write and record songs that would finally end up on Transit Transit. The single also included two B-sides: the instrumental track "Fat Kid" and a cover of the Beatles' "Helter Skelter".
Track listing
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| 1. | "Transit Transit" | 2:54 |
| 2. | "Census" | 4:40 |
| 3. | "High Chair" | 3:26 |
| 4. | "Supertoys" | 4:38 |
| 5. | "Spots" | 4:37 |
| 6. | "The Bouncing Wall" | 3:43 |
| 7. | "Audience No. 2" | 4:35 |
| 8. | "Kissproof" | 3:27 |
| 9. | "Headless Sky" | 4:06 |
| 10. | "The Science of Imaginary Solutions" | 6:03 |
