[6] Tracks including "Versions of You", "Ardour" and "Baby, Sleep" were inspired by frontman Paul Smith's new responsibilities as a father.
[8] Smith said that the name of the album came from a line of the final track "Child of the Flatlands", about nature slowly reclaiming the outskirts of a city.
[3] On No Ripcord, reviewer Juan Egardo Rodríguez considered it to be the band's best album since Quicken the Heart in 2009, and highlighted the track "All of Me", which he compared to "polar opposites" R.E.M.
[5] Robin Murray of Clash called it Maxïmo Park's best album for a decade, and noted how its political content was less overt than the preceding Risk to Exist (2017).
[2] All tracks are written by Paul Smith, Duncan Lloyd and Thomas English, except where notedMaxïmo Park Additional personnel