Recorded at London's Rough Trade East in October 2017, and mixed by Paul Fernandez, the album depicts an intimate solo performance, the first UK date on his extensive Electric Trim tour before Ranaldo returned in early 2018 with the Electric Trim trio. Ranaldo explains, "It was cool to have the first Electric Trim show be in an intimate setting. I came over to Europe on a promo trip and did the show at Rough Trade East in London, and a rooftop session in Paris a few days later I'm so proud of this group of songs, they are so exactly-what-I-wanted them to be, and they were still fresh at this moment - I was discovering them, stripping away all the arrangements to the simple, sturdy songs themselves with just a voice and a few acoustic guitars."