It was released through East West Records on 25 November 2016, and is the band's first album of new material in thirteen years, following on from A Present for Everyone (2003).

In 2013, it was announced that Bourne and Willis would be joining with the members of the band McFly to form the rock supergroup, McBusted.

The three continued to keep in contact and in 2015, after determining there was a creative common ground within the group following writing sessions in Philadelphia, it was announced that Busted would be reforming with the original lineup.

[12] Simpson, Willis, and Bourne traveled to Los Angeles before and after their Pigs Can Fly arena tour and met with producer John Fields to begin writing and recording new material.

Fields mixed the recordings with Paul David Hager, before the album was mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge in New York City.

[17][better source needed] On 9 September 2016, the band revealed that their third studio album would be called Night Driver, and that it would be released on 11 November 2016.

[18] Prior to the announcement, the first promotional single from the album, "Coming Home", was released on 3 May as a free download from the band's website.

Likewise, a video of the track, live at Pool Studios, was uploaded to the band's Vevo account on 20 October, along with an announcement that the album's release date had been pushed back to 25 November due to production delays.