The band has recorded and released six albums of the sort since 2018, with plans to repeat the project annually.

Scallon was inspired by Huang's project, and started a personal MySpace page to promote his own music.

[4] Both Huang and Scallon were members of the Perfect Strangers, the backing band for Hank Green.

The production features Huang and Scallon completing various musical challenges or experimenting with unique instruments.

[8] First of October formed in late 2018 for a YouTube video where the two would write and record an entire album in a single 10-hour session.

The album was mixed and produced by Rob Ruccia of Uptown Recording and formerly of nu metal band From Zero.

At the end of the behind the scenes video on Scallon's YouTube channel, he hinted at another album for 2020, saying, "Thanks for being such a fan of our one day a year band.

[13] They released their third album Gotta Record Everything Good on October 26, 2021, again with additional instruments such as ukulele, mandolin, 5 and 6-string basses, and banjo.

Here, Greg is also an acronym for Gotta Record Everything Good, an idea that came from their engineer Rob Ruccia while Scallon and Huang were writing "I Am Not Afraid".

That day, Scallon uploaded a video to Twitter announcing the return of the band, now back in Chicago.

Huang and Scallon also announced that they would be releasing more merchandise, including t-shirts, beanies, pins, and cassette tapes distributed through DFTBA Records.

[20] Throughout the day Huang and Scallon put out a series of twelve tweets each on their personal accounts, saying the same thing as the other member, seemingly revealing the upcoming album's song titles as they were recording (two of those tweets were re-naming songs).

[25] Despite report of a delay, Across the Road and its accompanying videos were released as scheduled on October 26, 2023.

At the beginning of recording, the band was experiencing over half an hour of technical difficulties relating to the Game Boy.