As the world was shut down by the pandemic in the early 2020s, Melbourne band Convenience Store closed its shop. Songwriter Nick Baker's body was shutting down too, with chronic health conditions leading him to a near-fatal hospital visit for sepsis and to asking new questions about what it was all for. It was in this haze that Baker and childhood friend Jack Phillips built Convenience Store up again, resolving to create something that was vulnerable and truthful.

Songs began to take form that reckoned desperately with the complex stories we tell to try to make sense of ourselves. They enlisted bassist Vincent Barker, and began constructing a nocturnal, foggy kind of rock music underscored by penetrating sincerity.

Their DIY recordings place Baker's literary, bare-all songwriting at the centre of a sonic world of melodic guitars and intimate lo-fi play, grounded in the history of moody UK guitar bands. It's a take on indie wedged between the DIY cool of Bar Italia and the captivating sincerity of acts like Elliot Smith or Alex G. Son of drummer Neil Baker (BIG PIG), Nick inherits his father's feel for lateral rock, presented by Neil's iconoclastic new-wave group BIG PIG in the 1980s.