Their third record, Sunlit Youth is much more uplifting than their previous work, and was apparently borne of a desire to create something with more happiness.
The band said:
We’re all just trying to find the coolest and best song in whatever ideas are presented. I think there’s a story like that with every song, where someone starts writing and then another person takes it and flips it on its head, and then more people come in and stretch that idea, and things just kind of snowball.
There’s also a political angle, with the track “Fountain of Youth” housing the line:
I have waited so long, Mrs. President