The D.O.T. is made up of former Streets mastermind Mike Skinner and Rob Harvey, lead singer of Leeds based dance rock mavens The Music. ‘Diary’ is the sound of two musicians reveling in the freedom to make music for it’s own sake. With no need to conform to a specific style, or satisfy a record label’s scheduling demands, there gradually evolved the sound you hear now in their second album.
The album features the single “How We All Lie”, which "was written in a very traditional way, apart from the MPC drum machine that started it all off. There are a lot of references to the football section of the newspapers that day, because it fits with the theme of the way we have to lie to reassure ourselves that we are part of society”. – Mike Skinner