Release and promotion
On January 30, 2018, Deafheaven posted on social media a photo of the members recording the album in a studio, and later confirmed to Pitchfork that they were working on a new album at 25th Street Recording in Oakland, California with longtime collaborator and producer Jack Shirley.[5] They released the lead single of the album, "Honeycomb", on April 18, 2018,[6] and announced the album and its accompanying tour the following day.[4] The second single, "Canary Yellow", was released on June 12.[7] The album was made available for streaming exclusively on NPR on July 5,[8] before being officially released on July 13 on CD, vinyl, digital download and streaming services via Anti-.[9]