[3] Produced by John Congleton, Greg Saunier, and Angela Seo, it features contributions from Charlemagne Palestine, Kristof Hahn, Vaginal Davis, and Enyce Smith.

[3] The album cover bears Arabic calligraphy that translates to "we forget".

Xiu Xiu leader Jamie Stewart has stated that the album cover has no meaning besides that "it looks beautiful" and is not meant as a political statement: "in hoping to depoliticize it, I suppose that it becomes political.

The title was further explained by Stewart: “To forget uncontrollably embraces the duality of human frailty.

It is a rebirth in blanked out renewal but it also drowns and mutilates our attempt to hold on to what is dear.”[5] In a press release, the album was marketed as the band's "most direct engagement with pop music".