It looks like State of Mind might have jumped the gun on announcing a purported split between Long Island bands CRIME IN STEREO and THE BACK UP PLAN. The label clarified the situation today with the following:

“Instead of doing the Back Pp Plan / Crime in Stereo split, we’ll be releasing a Back Up Plan Old Ghosts record [...]

Right before The Back Up plan called it quits in 2004 they had just short of a full-length written and recorded in Jeff’s basement for pre-production towards their next record. A lot of the songs never had vocals added to them or written for them at all for that matter. But they are now in the process of finishing these songs so we can get this record out by early next year as planned. Tentatively we’re looking at seven songs that never saw the light of day, two b-sides from Dearest Whomever, and the original demo to complete this release.”