The album reportedly displays the band's recent growth while not straying too far from the sound of their debut album, last year's My Father and the Hunter. It was recorded in Washington state at Bear Creek Studio with producer Ryan Hadlock (the Lumineers, Islands, Metric). A press release notes, "It seemed a natural progression for the band, whose dark lyrics about death and solitude crop up amongst beautiful lyrical mindscapes of trees and lakes and home."