More than a decade after Last Dinosaurs released their second album, Wellness, it still feels like a failure to its chief creator, Sean Caskey.
In terms of industry buzz, radio airplay or sales, Wellness doesn't rate as the Brisbane indie-pop band's crowning moment.
The 2012 debut album In A Million Years or their 2018 electronic-flavoured DIY adventure, Yumeno Garden, are held in higher esteem by the band themselves and critics.
But when it comes to the only critic that truly matters, Last Dinosaurs fans, Wellness is beloved.
Caskey is still amazed by a story a fan in Los Angeles once told him.
"I had some guy, the first time I went to LA, tell us this crazy story where he and his best friend would listen to Dinos and then his best friend found out he had a terminal illness," Caskey says.
"So they decided just for the last months of his life, all they wanted to do was just road trip and listen to Wellness.
"When I hear stuff like that, it sort of doesn't even matter that, in like my definition, it was a failure.
"It's served its purpose for somebody, and that's more important."
While that's an extreme case, Caskey says he is often told by fans that Wellness is their favourite album. It's become even more noticeable given the outpouring of emotion Caskey (guitar, vocals), brother Lachlan (guitar, vocals) and Michael Sloane (bass) have experienced while touring the album's reissue in the US and UK.
"We didn't even hit America until the album after this one [Yumeno Garden]," he says.
"We just didn't really know how that album went. It was a bit of a slow burner, anyway.
"We just noticed at shows and when we meet people, heaps of people would say Wellness was their favourite."
Caskey says the recording of Wellness was a stressful experience following the success of In A Million Years, which rode the indie synth-pop wave of the early 2010s driven by bands like The Wombats and Two Door Cinema Club.
"Looking back, I kind of feel like it [the debut album] was a little bit of a fluke," he says.
"To a degree, we got a lot of success from that one, a lot of recognition. The classic sophomore album pressure was real.
"It was honestly super stressful trying to come up with like another solid album. At the time, we weren't like overly stoked about it. We believed in the songs, but it's hard to explain what it is that makes a song a guaranteed - not necessarily a banger - but one that advances your career."
In order to regain ownership of the songs, Last Dinosaurs rerecorded Wellness Taylor Swift-style and released it in February as Wellnxss. The album features the original 10 tracks and five bonus songs written in the early days of the band.
That includes long-lost fan favourite Kebabs.
"I just did it in my own studio, so it wasn't rushed, and we played those songs for 10 years, so I knew exactly how they had to go," Caskey says.
"I had the chance just to chuck a couple of little Easter eggs in there as well."
