Five years ago, Shiny Toy Guns [ tickets ] founders Chad Petree and Jeremy Dawson had a vision for their band that included finding the right woman to front the electro-pop act. One day, at a club, they thought they found her in Sisely Treasure.

"We went to a show and it was unbelievable," Dawson said during an interview with LiveDaily. "We thought, 'Who is this girl?' She was bouncing off the bass bins, doing back hand springs off the drum set, screaming at the top of her lungs. The crowd was in her hands."

It turns out she was a big fan of Shiny Toy Guns' demo, but was already signed to DreamWorks Records.

"There was no way to get her out of the deal," Dawson said. "We were really bummed."

Fast forward five years to when lead singer Carah Faye Charnow, best known as the frontwoman on Shiny Toy Guns' hit "Le Disko," quit to move to Sweden. Dawson, Petree and drummer Mikey Martin were driving through storm-riddled Oklahoma unsure what to do about their singer situation until Martin suggested Treasure.

"We had literally forgotten all about Sisely," Dawson said. "I thought, 'Oh my God. Our original girl. The girl we wanted before anything.' I could not wait to wake up the next day and call her."

He tracked her down in England where she was just about to sign a solo deal with another record label. Dawson asked Treasure to leave England and come to Oklahoma for coffee and a chat. She thought he was crazy; he was persistent.

"She packed a backpack, went to London Heathrow Airport and flew to Oklahoma and we made a record," Dawson said. "Welcome to Shiny Toy Guns circa original line-up. We're super pumped. We're super, super pumped. She's not Carah and Carah's not her. They're two different girls, with two different voices and they're two different people. We were happy to death with Carah and we're happy to death with Sisely."

The fruits of their persistence will be found on Election Day (Nov. 4) when Shiny Toy Guns releases "Season of Poison," its first effort with Treasure. The band has been writing this record since its first tour in support of its debut, "We Are Pilots," in 2006.

"It's been a long process," Dawson said. "I think it always should be. Some of the songs we spent not that long on; they'll be stuff that Chad started years ago that just now saw the light of day, or the reality of what it's supposed to become. Each song is different, it's like children. You never know. You might have a fat baby and it ends up being a stick in high school and a 300-pound beer belly by the time they're 50. You and your husband could have blue eyes and your baby has brown eyes. Everything has its own needs. It's own place, its own time and place to develop."

The band named the album "Season of Poison" as a reference to things in life that are uncontrollable such as, Dawson said, pregnancy, death, life, birth, children or cheating spouses.

"It's anything that, when you wake up one day and you make coffee and you get an e-mail and you open it, and right then your life just changed, bam," he said. "From the time you clicked on the e-mail to five seconds before that you were a completely different person."

Dawson explained that there's another factor that nobody has control over: the atmosphere and the weather around us. Petree and Dawson are from Oklahoma, home to some of the most dynamic weather extremes in the world. People are fascinated with it, he explained.

"They're fascinated by the fact that looming 15 miles to the northwest is the most ominous-looking black cloud you've ever seen in your life," Dawson said. "It's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen in your life. As it approaches, you see these swirling masses of condensated strips of ice that swirl up into the air into these giant spiral bands like the planet Saturn.

"Ten minutes later, you're laying on the ground with a 2x4 between your eyes. As beautiful as it was, and as close as you wanted to get to it, you forgot how dangerous it is. Taking that in your mind and the last thing I told you, if you noticed, they're very, very similar. Things in life that apply to humans; they both are uncontrollable by humans yet we have to deal with it, run from it, run toward it, be inspired by it or be destroyed by it. That's why the record is called 'A Season of Poison.'"

Sonically, he said, the album sounds like a compilation of different elements.

"We went everywhere with it. We didn't lose the electronics, we lost the clubby booch booch booch sound. We replaced that with more of an electronica sound instead of a club sound.

"It's deep. It's dark. It's twisted and it's very epic and intense. Instead of being bouncy quirky, it's very sharp and very strong. There's a warm organic strength to the songs in the way they were produced that we've never had before."