[4] The fourth single, the title track, was released on July 25, with a music video directed by Aaron Preusch which depicts Cosentino dancing in front of projected footage of landscapes and fires.

[6] Cosentino was originally planning on working with Carlos de la Garza, who had produced Best Coast's last album Always Tomorrow, but determined that Walker's background in alt country and Americana would fit better.

[10] One of the album's major lyrical themes is climate change,[9][11] involving frequent references to fire and drought juxtaposed with "girl group sha-la-las" and "descriptions that evoke a vaguely pre-apocalyptic landscape" on the opening track.

's Kate Shepherd wrote that with the album, Cosentino had "crafted an artifact that will feel at once familiar to those who followed her work with Best Coast and also distinctly her own, merging vulnerability with a dry sense of humour, and deploying to full effect her well-honed skill for blending sincere nostalgia with her own brand of millennial irony.

"[11] Mills highlighted Cosentino's ability to know "exactly what kind of sparkling, big-hearted album she wanted to make", and the combination of her "acidity" with Walker's "polish" which "delivers way more often than not.