[1] Before Sunlight had even released in June 2020, frontman Caleb Harper began writing material for the band's next album in spare time from COVID-19 tour cancellations.

[8] On 9 August 2021, they revealed on social media that the album was fully recorded, and had been produced alongside Konstantin Kersting at Empire Studios, Brisbane.

Harper personally sought permission from Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy to adopt the name, which "tied into what [he] wanted to talk about on the record".

[12] Perth photographer Matt Sav shot the album cover which features the four band members standing isolated on a sand dune.

[13] Harper originally wanted the image to feature "1000 people all the way up a sand dune, lit up by a flood light and fading into black", but this idea was too unrealistic.

[16] He admitted in an interview with Apple Music that depression as a lyrical theme runs throughout "half of the album", particularly in tracks like "Clean My Car" and "Haircut" – the latter using personal anecdote to explain things the frontman did to "reinvent myself and pull myself out of a state of mind after a breakup".

[17] Similarly, "It's Been a Long Day", one of the record's most sonically desolate tracks, follows Harper's emotions falling in and out of a relationship and battles with depersonalisation.

[18][19] "Lunchtime" was written as Harper was experiencing "severe hangover anxiety and feeling extremely hopeless", with the track's fast and upbeat instrumentation directly contradicting the "somber lyrics and themes".

[22][23] In November, Spacey Jane appeared on ABC's music programme The Sound to perform the song live from Red Hill Auditorium in Western Australia.

[39][40] Writing for NME, Caleb Triscari wrote the album offered "promising development from Spacey Jane", praising Harper for the fuller use of his vocal range, and the improved instrumentation compared to the band's debut.

He claimed the songwriting was uninspired, unmemorable, and that "musically, it sounds like so many other records released by Australian indie bands in the past decade".

[44] Conversely, Mitch Mosk of Atwood Magazine praised its relatable lyrics, concluding "Here Comes Everybody is unapologetically dynamic and charismatically passionate".