We finished [the album] and after we’d done all of our deliberations, the record came down to 21 tracks. Now, we were looking at it and thinking, “But hold on: It was 22 tracks.” It’s not that we didn’t want to lose the pre-orders, it’s just that it didn’t really make sense to me. But we weren’t just going to make up an interlude or something for the sake of it and put it on what we want to be our best album. We’d been with Mike Skinner recently, and I was talking to him about this tune, which is basically using that string sample. The conversation just turned to that, and then George started doing it, making the beat, and it was so fucking exciting. So we set the mic up and recorded the whole thing in, like, a day. It’s about wanting to die with your partner. Don’t want to lose someone that I love. If somebody wanted to know what the album sounded like in a clip, I would play them this. We knew exactly what [the album] was just at the very end, whereas during the creation of it, we just didn’t.

Yes, the official visualizer was released July 11, 2020.

If you’re playing football and you say “bagsy not in net” it means I’m not going in goal first. “Bagsy not in net” is like shotgun for the car. We were listening to music and “Sailing” by Christopher Cross came on. I remember saying to George – “Do you remember back in the day when I said this would make an amazing sample” and we kind of looked at each other like “fuck”. The album was so clean cut to us at that point that the sample just sounded like it was on the album. It was so easy to write and record because we loved it so much. That’s one of my favourite songs on the album. I love the feel of that beat, I love the fact that it only does one thing.

— Matty Healy via Spotify