The band is composed of Hazel Wilde, Paul Gregory, Bob Allan and Angela Chan.

[6] During this period Lanterns on the Lake supported Explosions in the Sky on their UK tour including the O2 Academy, Brixton.

[15] Beings was met with critical acclaim[16] with Drowned in Sound declaring Lanterns on the Lake as "One of Britain's most crucial bands of the present moment.

[18] Following the release of Beings, Lanterns on the Lake toured Europe and the UK extensively and at this time performed their largest hometown concert to date where they were accompanied by Royal Northern Sinfonia at Sage Gateshead in Hall One,[19] the orchestral arrangements composed by Fiona Brice.

[21] Wilde commented that the live album "feels to be retrospectively like a line that we were drawing under what had come before for our band.

So by the time we’d finished touring the third album Beings we were actually in a really good place...Then there we were...in our hometown and so many people there to see us including people who had been following our band since the start and been on the journey with us...It kind of felt like a celebration of all the music we’d made in the past and a bit of a release for us personally because all that perseverance had in some ways paid off – at least in the sense that we were still going and we were able to be there, then, in that moment.

In an interview Wilde commented "I don’t think we ever said it would be the absolute end.. (But) I don’t think people would have blamed us for throwing in the towel at that point – we’d had a good run at it.. that would have been a good place to call it a day but we felt there was probably more we had to offer and further to go creatively, we just weren’t sure what or where that would be.

[24] The album was noted for reflecting on issues including polarized politics, social media, addiction, grief and the climate crisis.

The group provided the theme song "Don't Have Nightmares" written especially for the hit BBC podcast series Uncanny, presented by Danny Robins.