The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating is the forthcoming sixth album by Australian rock band The Living End, to be released on 22 July 2011 on Dew Process.[3] The album was produced by Nick DiDia. 　　 　　 　　In early 2010, Chris Cheney went to New York for three months to begin writing songs for the album. While in New York, he met up with The Hold Steady singer Craig Finn, who he met through John Agnello who had produced the band's previous album, White Noise. [4] With Finn, he cowrote the song "The Ending Is Just the Beginning Repeating". Cheney said that for the new album he "wanted to meet different people and gather some fresh resources and influences to hopefully take my writing and add a different element". [5] 　　 　　Later in the year, the band regrouped to begin rehearsals in a South Melbourne recording studio.[6] The band performed as The Safety Matches to road test new material. Cheney said that they had performed "a week's worth of gigs playing only new songs to see which ones would sink or swim" and that they had recorded fewer studio demos than for previous albums.[7][8] They then went into the studio to record the album.[9] 　　 　　Cheney said that the album took "like a year and a half of writing" and that they always seem to "go through 30-40 songs" in rehearsal.[10] He said that during writing the album they had "amassed something in the vicinity of 40-plus songs to choose from".[11] During the writing stage he said he would be "working on 30 songs at the same time." [12] When asked in a live webchat on what was different about this album, he replied, "I believe that there was a sense of not being able to top what we achieved with White Noise, so I was determined we'd create the best songs we've written. We ended up with more songs and at the end of it we went through every tune and picked the best ones that fit together."[13] 　　 　　Recording of the album, with Nick DiDia, who came out from Atlanta to produce the album, was completed in May 2011 after which it was sent to Brendan O'Brien for mixing.[14][15]