The album came out on October 7, 2016, via the French independent record label NØ FØRMAT!

After the 2010 release of his 4th studio album, Swansongs, Thompson announced he was moving on from music.

Aside from a 2011 song collaboration with Buddy Miller ("Dang Me") and the Chocolate Genius Twitter feed, Thompson remained mostly inactive.

However, on December 16, 2015, a video was released on No Format's YouTube channel, entitled "Chocolate Genius Inc. – Epilogue 1: Truth vs.

The final activity before the release was one day before the album debuted when the official music video for the song "Detroit" was uploaded.