[1] The band then aimed on stepping into the studio with Richard Craker, who had handled the production of "Easy Life" – which was released as a standalone single on 19 September 2019[2] – and their Acoustic EP, but this arrangement would ultimately encounter logistical problems, and plans to work together fell apart.

Now scheduled for recording to take place in Texas at the Machine Shop, the band had 75% of the album written before original bassist/vocalist Adam Roffey would depart Press to Meco in late February 2020.

ACODA multi-instrumentalist, Jake Crawford was later announced as Roffey's replacement[4] but the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic thwarted album recording plans set up in the United States.

Having earlier spent time writing at a remote castle in the Cotswolds, arrangements were instead made to convert the 16th century space into a makeshift studio to record the album.

[3][5] Assembled with minimal equipment and with Machine flying out to England, recording began at the beginning of August with a skeleton crew in line with government COVID guidelines at the time while in-between lockdowns.