[1] The band began recording demos for the album in 2020, and while Heagy liked the material's shared thematic and sonic ties, he felt it wasn't quite ready for release.

[1] The band describes the album's concept as an exploration of an "emotional and spiritual 404 error, a sensation of cellular-level malfunction and data corruption, of being lost in an oblivion of digital information, and the desperate struggle to reconnect to how it feels to be human and whole.

And I think that’s really what the main ethos of the whole spiritual error thing is: a lot of bad shit has happened in the past four years – especially related to how digitised and disconnected pretty much everything is.

[7] Darker themes include album opener "Lost Signal" being about Heagy's grief experienced from the death of his cousin,[2] while "Sixth Cents (Get It?)"

[1][7] Paste described the album as a "high-energy [20]00'... pop-punk sound" that "occasionally flirts with hardcore, post-punk and ska influences.

[12] Two singles were released on the same day – "Dirty Mirror Selfie" and "Where Blue Light Blooms" – along with accompanying music videos directed by Kay Dargen.

It was named Stereogum's album of the week upon its release, with the publication concluding that "Brash, sharp, and innovative, Feeling Not Found is an exemplary portrait of the state of pop-punk in 2024"[2] Paste praised the album for "spinning economic, political and interpersonal disillusionment into raucous hooks" and concluded that "It's a logical continuation of everything that made longtime listeners fall in love with their sound on 2019’s Somewhere City and 2021’s Gami Gang—but even better.