[1] The album establishes a core membership of four singers, who also form the line-up for the band's live shows: Mamani Keïta (Mali), Fafa Ruffino (Benin), Niariu (France/Guinea), and Kandy Guira (Burkina Faso).

[2] Other vocalists on the album are Rokia Koné, Ami Yerewolo, Nacera Ouali Mesbah, Amadou Dembélé, Boy-Fall and Jon Grace.

[7] Recording began in April 2018 in Bamako, where the majority of the album's traditional African instrumentation was captured, e.g. doundoun, tama, djembe, as well as guitars, drums and bass parts for the songs "Queens", "Dreams", "Timbuktu", "Red", "Rebels" and "Dogon".

It has been described as an album of pan-African styles[9] with elements of traditional griot funk,[13] electronica, pop, desert blues, African hip-hop, dub and reggae.

Q Magazine described the album as "a rousing and defiantly modern revolution in sound", and a review in The Sunday Times credited Liam Farrell's ability to "break new ground without imposing a slickly commercial backdrop".

[15] Mojo's David Hutcheon noted that Liam Farrell excels on the songs "Timbuktu", "Heavy" and "Sisters", which he called "bridges between traditional griot funk, western clubland and conscious African hip-hop.

The songs "Heavy" and "Queens" pay tribute to women's resilience and determination, whilst "Red" and "Dogon" advocate for social cohesion and mutual respect.

[4] It was promoted with a music video capturing the process of writing and recording the song, and it supported a European summer tour, which featured a new band line-up.

[3] The band made their debut live appearance in the USA on January 12, 2020 at The Copacabana in New York City as part of GlobalFEST,[17] and visited the UK on the week of the album's release, performing at Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow and The Jazz Café in London.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 85 based on 5 sources, indicating "universal acclaim".

"[9] In his Sunday Times review, Clive Davis defended the album's progressive production, saying that "whilst some purists may feel that the producer Liam Farrell (alias Doctor L) gilds the lily, he actually manages to break new ground without imposing a slickly commercial backdrop.

Mojo's David Hutcheon remarked that the "rolling membership opens up the palette considerably",[13] whilst the New Internationalist noted the album had "a much more underground sound than its predecessor [...] due to the change in personnel.