Sub Pop

This 10-track live set features music from the band's 2023 Sub Pop debut, Careful!, and their 2020 album Auto-Pain on Fire Talk. These songs were captured from a live performance at Lanxess Arena in Cologne while on a seven-date European tour, opening for Depeche Mode. The album was recorded by Terence Hulkes and mixed, mastered, and produced by Dave Vettraino at Public House Sounds Recordings.

The band's thoughts on releasing a live album: "I've always loved how live records reflect a band's relationship to their catalog – what their favorites are versus the audience's and using the interplay between them to shape the arc of a performance. One of the best parts of touring is reconfiguring the sets each night and exploring how songs from different records fit together live. It's not a surprise that song orders on studio albums are pretty deliberate, which is why it's so much fun and organic to explore how to structure live sets for different audiences. We loved this live set in Cologne because it captured one of our favorite combinations of songs from Auto-Pain and Careful! that we refined over the busy year of touring.

Feeding off 20k people, the energy in these recordings made a nice contrast to our previous live tracks from the pandemic that had no audience. This live album comes from our last show with Depeche Mode, which was also the final show of their 18-month world tour. It was pretty special to close it out with them and still feels surreal to have been given the opportunity."