Diet Cig is an American indie rock duo that formed in September 2014 in New Paltz, New York, United States.

Bowman's old band, Earl Boykins, was playing at the house show, where Luciano needed a cigarette lighter.

The track Sleep Talk is "a love song told through a what-if scenario",[4] and Dinner Date has been described as "a self-aware ode to fleeting relationships, changing, and growing out of adolescence.

According to a press release, the debut LP sees Diet Cig railing against people who've dismissed their opinions and judged them unfairly simply because they didn't quite live up to a societal norm or expectation.

The band notes: “It's all about unpacking the feeling of approaching punk with radical softness, and the struggle when it’s not always read as powerful or cool or whatever enough [...] it’s the shout into my pillow when what I’m saying isn’t being heard, and a big old I FEEL YA to all the femme folks creating space for themselves in a world that wants to keep us quiet.” [7] The band performed at the Audiotree music festival in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2018.

Luciano stated that the song "centres around my very real and frequent experiences with night terrors and other bizarre sleep activity.

[11] The album was produced by Christopher Daly, and engineered by Kyle Pulley and Joe Reinhart at Headroom Studios, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.

Her younger brother and sister are featured on the front and back of the band's single Sleep Talk / Dinner Date.