After returning home to a damp Derry in Northern Ireland from a tour cut short due to COVID in 2020, Parker vocalist and guitarist Dylan Bradley began writing and recording material in his bedroom with the aim of starting a new project to vent his frustrations. Mining a rich vein of influence from US college rock and melodic punk bands like The Mountain Goats, Weezer, Pixies, Smashing Pumpkins and Blink-182 that has more in common with the west coast of America than the wild north coast of Ireland, the songs soon began to fall out of him in droves. Once the material started to come together, Bradley began working on the tracks with drummer Michael Brown, the two of whom had been playing in punk bands together since 2012. Not long after, former tour buddy and long time friend Eoghan Donegan...
