Around 2022, the band was thinking about a new approach to recording the fourth album. E.g. for Moral Panic II, they recorded at ‘Decoy Studios.’
So, they built their own studio.
A video on YouTube shows the band setting up the studio for a bts series called ‘Dead Club City Sessions.’
Joe Langridge-Brown:
A concept was almost like a tool to feel automatically fresh, but it wasn’t lost on us that it’s kind of a cliché. ‘How do we do this and not make it too pastiche?’ was very much a daily conversation and consideration.
The concept is pointless unless there is real-world meaning behind each of the songs. Moral Panic felt like it was about the health of our society and what I was viewing on Twitter, the chaos of that. This album feels like it’s in the future—what the nth degree of [that chaos] is if things kept going. What might happen in this sort of dystopian, segregated, members-only city?
—via Apple Music
Yes, Apple Music features animated artwork for this release.