The new album stands as a sort of concept piece, with the tracks representing stages of political radicalization and political violence. In the liner notes, Ross says of the album – "Believing falsehoods because those falsehoods reinforce our preferred narratives is not harmless. Promoting falsehoods to benefit your faction is not harmless, particularly in a well-armed society. If we remain locked in our own echo chambers, inevitably there will a voice of the echo chamber that speaks in the language of mass murder, believing it justified. This album describes that tragic inevitability".
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