Frontman Alex Ebert stated that "These songs mean everything to me - It's the rawest, most liberated, most rambunctious stuff we've done.

"[1] On May 22, 2013, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros posted "Better Days", the first single from the upcoming album on their Soundcloud and Tumblr pages.

[2] On July 15, 2013, the band made the whole album available for streaming online through NPR.

[3] The band uploaded a music video for their second single, "Life Is Hard", on their YouTube channel on September 19, 2013.

The music video, filmed in The Box Theatre in New York, was performed in front of a live audience on August 25, 2013.