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On March 22, 2013, it was announced via Toad the Wet Sprocket's Facebook page that recording of the new album had been completed. The album was produced and mixed by Mikal Blue at Revolver Studios in Thousand Oaks, California. On June 5, 2013, the band announced the first new single in 16 years on Rolling Stone's website titled "New Constellation". An album of the same name was released on the band's own Abe's Records on October 15, 2013.[14] The band marketed the new album via the crowdsourcing website Kickstarter.[15] The band initially set a fundraising goal of $50,000, expecting it to take about two months to raise that amount. Instead, fans contributed more than $50,000 in less than 20 hours.[15] When the Kickstarter campaign finally came to a close, they had raised a total of $264,762.[16] The band kicked off their new album with a release party for Kickstarter supporters at The Palm restaurant in Los Angeles, California, on August 23, 2013, followed immediately by a live performance at the nearby Troubadour music venue.[17] VIP access pass to the 2015 Toad, Tonic, & Smash Mouth concert series, signed by Toad's band members. In 2014, Toad the Wet Sprocket resumed touring and opened a number of shows for Counting Crows. They showcased some of the new material from New Constellation, the Kickstarter-funded album, including "California Wasted" and the album's title track while playing a number of their earlier hits. During summer 2015, the band went on tour with fellow '90s acts Smash Mouth and Tonic.[18] The band released an EP called Architect of the Ruin on June 16, 2015. In 2018, Toad the Wet Sprocket announced that they had reissued their albums fear and Dulcinea on a deluxe remastered vinyl LP available through their online store.[19] The same year, they also released a limited deluxe 5-LP box set of colored vinyl for their albums fear, Dulcinea and Acoustic Dance Party.[20] In a January 2020 interview with ChicagoNow, Glen Phillips stated that "Toad has started recording again." In addition, he confirmed the band's first official lineup change, and that drummer Guss had left the band on good terms. Previous occasional touring member Josh Daubin replaced Guss.[21] On September 25, 2020, they released a new song titled "Starting Now", followed by another new song "Old Habits Die Hard" on October 23, from their album, Starting Now, released on August 27, 2021.[22] Musical style[edit] Toad the Wet Sprocket have been most consistently labelled as alternative rock,[23][24][25] but their music has also been described as folk rock,[26] pop rock,[27] jangle pop,[28] and folk-pop.[23] AllMusic writer Kelly McCarteny described Toad's early music as having a "jangle pop, garage band sound", and noted that their album Fear was a shift to "smart and catchy pop/rock songs".