The Loft’s return to the recording studio to make their long-awaited full-length debut album – 2025’s Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same – was such a delightful treat that it feels greedy to expect anything more from the group. It would have been fine if they had packed up their gear, shaken hands warmly, and moved on to other projects secure in the knowledge that not only had they not besmirched their legend, they had added to it. Things didn’t quite work out that way and the band decided they had so much fun making Everything Changes that it seemed like a good idea to tempt fate and give it a second go. The more cynical among their fans and followers might have felt that it was a risky move, that hoping for lightning to strike again was folly.