[2][3] In 2017 Sprague moved across the country to Los Angeles, in response to what she described as a need "to go somewhere drastically different to discover new parts of myself.

"[4] In California she started recording ambient music, and releasing it as a solo artist.

[2][4] She told Stereogum that she was "incredibly depressed for the first six months to a year that I lived [in LA].

On Metacritic, it holds a score of 87 out of 100, indicating "universal acclaim", based on five reviews.

[7] Jenn Pelly of Pitchfork called the album "dark, acoustic, and bracingly metaphysical...the most striking Florist release yet.