The Lumineers have said that the song "Angela," is about "a small town success story struggling to escape her past.

Through Facebook, The Lumineers premiered a twenty-one second long snippet of a live performance of the song on April 1, 2016.

[2] The official music video was released via the Lumineers' YouTube and Vevo accounts on September 13, 2016.

[6] On April 1, 2016, The Lumineers premiered the song "Angela," with a live performance at the iHeartRadio music theater in LA.

[7] The Lumineers also performed the song for KEXP at the Columbia City Theater; and on April 16, 2016, they performed the song for The Saturday Sessions, a weekly music slot featured on the daily morning news program, CBS This Morning.