After playing locally in Louisville, Kentucky and Indiana,[3] they performed at the SXSW music festival in March 2012 to promote their homemade self-titled EP.
Geoff Travis, the head of Rough Trade was in the audience and offered a contract shortly after.
Spin and Esquire.com named Houndmouth a "must-see" band at Lollapalooza, and Garden & Gun said, "You'd be hard pressed to find a more effortless, well-crafted mix of roots and rock this year than the debut album from this Louisville quartet.
The band performed "Sedona" on the Late Show with David Letterman on March 31, 2015, and at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles was featured on Last Call with Carson Daly on November 18[10] and 27, 2015.
This was the first album they released after Katie Toupin left the band to pursue her own endeavors.