How do you cope when the world shuts down? At the start of the pandemic, most of us had to contend with life-altering changes that severely impacted our day-to-day lives, not to mention our taken-for-granted ability to move around freely. As lockdown approached in 2020, Beach Bunny's Lili Trifilio was wrapping up a tour in support of the band's critically acclaimed debut album, Honeymoon, and found herself back at her parents' house in Chicago. While there, she coped with her new reality by retreating into sci-fi stories and her always-active imagination. She envisioned new places to travel in her mind, thus dreaming up big, bombastic pop sounds to construct Beach Bunny's highly anticipated sophomore album, Emotional Creature.