Loma Vista On The Million Masks Of God, Manchester Orchestra’s main songwriters, Andy Hull and Robert McDowell, applied a recently revised approach that was inspired by their experiences writing and recording the soundtrack to the 2016 film, “Swiss Army Man.” This approach was to compose cinematic concept albums meant to form a single narrative that should be listened to in one sitting. Hull and McDowell began implementing this technique on the last Manchester Orchestra album, 2017’s A Black Mile To the Surface and fully embraced it on this, their seventh album. In addition, The Million Masks Of God could be thought of as an extension of the themes of their last album too.