Songfacts®:

• Monsters of Folk are an alternative rock band comprising of Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis of Bright Eyes, and indie singer-songwriter M. Ward. The foursome originally got together in 2004 during the participants' collegial 2004 tour. After playing together both on-stage and backstage, they started working together on and off on various material. Due to the members' other projects, it took five years for their self-titled debut album to be wrapped. This is the opening track from the album.
• This is based around a sample of Trevor Dandy's 1970 gospel song "Is There Any Love." Rapper Kid Cudi also sampled the same track on his song "Is there Any Love," which is on the deluxe version of his debut album, Man On The Moon: The End of the Day.
• Mike Mogis told Express Night Out about this song: "Connor played bass - we both did - I did a lot of keyboards. I tried to make things sound as if they were part of the loop, like a Wurlitzer line. [Though,] it got kind of spacey sounding, so, it didn't end up sounding like this part of the loop. [The sample] didn't dictate where the song went. I do think, though, that it created an R & B feel that we wanted embrace in keeping the arrangement sparse and vocal-heavy. I know the vocals have a beachy-esque quality to it, but it also has an R & B quality. It inspired that sort of direction. It didn't dictate what we did, but it put us in that direction. We kind of wanted that one to be a little trippy, sort of."
• The Monsters of Folk recorded a sequel to this song with Late Night With Jimmy Fallon's house band The Roots in 2010.