Burch spent her early years as a touring musician as part of Frontier Ruckus,[2] until she decided to take a break from music to attend grad school in Chicago.

Her musical hiatus ended in 2014 when she moved back to Detroit and continued singing in Frontier Ruckus while beginning to co-front Failed Flowers.

[3] While participating in these groups, Burch wrote songs and recorded phone demos, her first solo release being a split single with Stef Chura.

With the encouragement and help of friend and Chicago musician Paul Cherry, her demos eventually turned into the full band recordings of her debut album.

[4] Burch signed to Polyvinyl Records in 2017 after PV artist Fred Thomas, formerly of Saturday Looks Good To Me, sent demos to the label with the note "This is not a drill.