[6] It is the follow-up to the band's 2014 album, Man on the Run, and is the third featuring the lineup of Gavin Rossdale, Robin Goodridge, Chris Traynor and Corey Britz.

[12] "People at War" was released alongside a music video in June 2016, in partnership with the UN Refugee Agency.

[4] AllMusic commented that Bush "managed to craft a collection of adult contemporary hard rock" with the record.

[13] Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic rated the album three out of five stars, calls it "an interesting piece of the Bush discography", and states that it "hints at a late-era trajectory shift and a reinvigorated spirit for Rossdale and company.

"[3] In a two out of five star review, The Guardian's Gwilym Mumford claims: "Album number seven sands down what little edge the band once had and buffs their sound to a banal, stadium-rock sheen.