The album was released by Island Def Jam label Mercury Records on March 3, 2014.

The album serves as a replacement to the band's eponymous 2013 extended play, American Authors.

[2] The Blue Pages, after relocating to New York City, New York, recorded and independently released two extended plays, Anthropology in February 2011,[3] and Rich With Love in January 2012,[4] as name-your-price albums on online music store Bandcamp.

Their debut single, "Believer," garnered attention through alternative rock radio.

[6] All songs written by Zac Barnett, James Shelley, Dave Rublin, Matthew Sanchez, Shep Goodman, and Aaron Accetta, except where noted.