 In August 2007, Sanctus Real returned to the studio to record a fourth album, which was finished by the end of the year. In November 2007, the album was originally slated for release under the title Turn on the Lights, the name of a track on the album. It was later changed to We Need Each Other, and was released in February 2008, through Sparrow Records. The title track "We Need Each Other" was released earlier as the album's lead single in November 2007. The song stayed at number 1 on R & R's Christian CHR chart for five consecutive weeks by February 2008, and it was 2008's eighth most-played song of the year in the same format.
