[1] It was the band's first release, and their only self-issued album before their major label debut under Ki/oon Music in 2014.

Folks first formed in 2013 when former Galileo Galilei members Fumito Iwai and Kazumasa Noguchi moved back to their birthplace of Hokkaido to start a band, and officially became a unit in January 2013.

All the house-mates loved the completed song, and decided to merge their two bands to create Folks.

[4] The band based themselves at their parents' houses in Eniwa, Hokkaido, and recorded songs in Fumito Iwai's bedroom in Megumino.

[5] Iwai felt that Take Off was influenced by Oasis, and other English indie rock musicians such as James Blake and Bombay Bicycle Club.