The album features collaborations with their friends and the local New York creative community including MIKE, sLUms, EMC, Lila Ramani from Crumb.

[1][2] Red Burns was released through their official website on September 11, tying the album and the imagery to the duos connection to New York.

Escobar detailed the importance of that date and being a New Yorker and the contrast of the sense of vulnerability in a city that otherwise has a very confident character.

"[3] Red Burns received acclaim for its genre-bending freeform music and what it manages to capture in an audio-scrapbook manner.

"[5] Matthew Strauss described it as "hour-long, uninterrupted piece" that "blends elements of jazz, indie rock, soul, funk, and hip-hop, tossing in poetry, mock radio broadcasts, a lot of samples, and plenty of distortion.