[2] According to singer Julie Christmas, the album is "written in a timeline that mirrors what was happening between Josh [Graham] and me in our growing, and then rapidly decaying, relationship.

[5] The band then added Pere Ubu's Tony Maimone on bass and The Book of Knots' Joel Hamilton on guitar.

The band finished tracking five of the album's seven songs before the toxicity between Christmas and Graham created a working environment that was too uncomfortable for Maimone to continue in.

[6] By that point, the pair refused to be in the same room as each other, leading the guitars and the vocals to be completed on separate days.

[5] Before the album's closing song "Cave of Spleen" was recorded, a band member was reported to have "accidentally" fallen down a staircase.