On January 21, 2022, the Head and the Heart announced details about the album, revealing its title Every Shade of Blue and its release date of April 29, 2022.

In a press release, the band stated that the album "conveys a spectrum of emotions and how we live with them", while further adding that "The closer we get the more shades we see.

[6] Mary Siroky of Consequence criticized the album's lack of cohesiveness, specifically highlighting songs "Family Man" and "GTFU", and concluding that the album as a whole had nothing new to add to the "specific strain of indie-pop" that has been pioneered by similar artists and bands of the genre.

[7] Anthony Mark Happel of Under the Radar expressed similar sentiments, writing: "There is a ghostly sonic aspect to this album that does stay with you after the fact, with every song here being the sound of a certain "shade of blue," and there is always an intimacy and an emotional immediacy to what they do as a band, but more often than not it stays too much in that one place, their comfort zone.

It causes an album like this to come across like a collection of demo tracks by a very accomplished band that lays out their aural plan, but doesn't ever fully color in all of the spaces available to them.