On February 1, 2010 Rhymesayers Entertainment announced that they had signed Laub to their roster and that Laub would be re-releasing his self-titled album 88 Keys & Counting in conjunction with a new EP called The Confessions of Mr. Modest.
During production a chorus dancer, Jack Grieves, died on the set due to acute indigestion.
Critic Ray Young reviewed, "Unique and personal, it grieves over the loss of innocence, as if tapped directly from the id. Vermilion Eyes makes no concessions to anyone or any genre and works out of bruised, frazzled emotion. The poetic, whirling, free style of its imagery is remarkably close in spirit to James Joyce."
Samantha "Sam" Fitzgerald (née Grieves) is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Simone Buchanan.