better at that time, and with Halloween you don't have to compete with Mariah Carey and Josh Groban.

According to the band's drummer, Spencer Smith, the song's vocals were recorded in a bathroom, as "purely a result of being on tour and having to make the most of what you have to work with.

Also, around that time Ryan was wanting to sing more, so doing that on a casual, fun song seemed like a low pressure way to ease into it.

Filmed outside of St. Louis in Defiance, Missouri, in a forested area and at an indoor Halloween party, the video features the members of the band dressed in Halloween costumes purchased from a local Party City.

[4] In 2019, Brii Jamieson of Rock Sound wrote that, "Over the past 11 years, 'It's Almost Halloween' has transcended its cultural bounds, and become a scene staple – a cult classic, the likes of which we haven't seen since.