During one performance, they debuted three new songs, one of which being "Push Yourself". The touring cycle for the album concluded by December 2010; frontman Liam Fray said the band would take a brief break before starting to work on their next album. Sometime after, they had accumulated six-to-seven new songs, though Fray was unsure of what direction they would take. He explained that the material on Falcon were written as acoustic songs, whereas for the new material, he was "building [them] up and getting drum beats and bass parts down" prior to them entering a studio.
