Paradise Again came together in the wake of Swedish House Mafia rediscovering their musical synergy on the band's 2019 reunion tour, spending countless hours in the studio over the course of the subsequent years, exorcizing new sonic palettes, textures, and tones from an arsenal of analog synths. While the new batch of material is recognizably Swedish House Mafia, it also represents an ambitious broadening of their musical scope, as evinced by the wide ranging roster of collaborators and guests, including The Weeknd, A$AP Rocky, Sting, Ty Dolla $ign, 070 Shake, Jacob Mühlrad, Seinabo Sey, Mapei, and English singer-songwriter Connie Constance on the soaring album cornerstone "Heaven Takes You Home." "There's always new ground to break," states Steve Angello. "However, the biggest challenge was to do what nobody expected us to. We needed to find sounds in the studio we had never heard before and were excited about. It's super inspiring for me to be in a band where we actually want to challenge ourselves. This is definitely one of the most exciting times for us, because we're having fun like 15-year-olds again."