The Good Life's first album in eight years, Everybody's Coming Down is described by Jon Hadusek of Consequence of Sound as being lyrically "the diary of an oft-tormented songwriter who’s finally reached a point of realization" and musically as "a loose jam with friends.

"[1] The last The Good Life album was 2007's Help Wanted Nights, and since that time members of the band generally moved away from their hometown of Omaha, Nebraska and worked on other projects.

Bassist Stefanie Drootin-Senseney relocated to Los Angeles with her husband, fellow musician Chris Senseney, and they formed the band Big Harp and released two albums as well as starting a family.

's Peter Sanfilippo calls the record "focused and purposeful"[5] and Aaron Mook of absolutepunk.net said the album is "an experimental but mostly successful step further down a path of fuzzy, theatrical rock and roll.

"[6] However, Pitchfork's Ian Cohen said, "it just sounds secondhand, scripts written by someone whose worldview has been shaped mostly by Cursive records," and that it's "a barely fictionalized, deadened version of [Kasher's] own life starring him.