The songs on the record offer an abstract look into the bandmembers' lives. “It’s been a tumultuous few years for everybody in the band,” he says. “We kind of just picked some of the more poignant subjects to look at.” The members of Post/War came together in 2015 and released one EP, the five-track Bloom, in 2017. During that time, they’ve gone through personnel changes — currently, the lineup includes Gray, bassist John Anderson, guitarists Cullen Petrey and Max Murray, and drummer Daniel Paulin — and had their output disrupted by the pandemic. They say the new record is the beginning of an album cycle.