The Los Angeles-based twin duo of Christoph and Anton Hochheim – also members of a dozen other bands – have shared the track with an accompanying music video. They said "'Shadow Play is about living for an imagined audience... Relationships are a type of performance, with specific roles that get cast and stories that get etched out and retold with time.'"

It's the final preview of , their new album, the follow up to 2021's . It was produced by Jack Tatum (Wild Nothing) and is the pair’s first release for Hit The North Records. It also features a guest vocal from China Crisis singer Gary Daly.

Always You were formerly known as Ablebody, and have worked across lo-fi laptop pop, synth pop, and lounge ballads. On , they move into heavier territory, with Tatum guiding production and mixing.