 Hamasaki began recording the album in 2013 at the Record Plant studios in Los Angeles, California, where she was living at the time.There, she recorded the tracks "Feel the Love", "XOXO", "Terminal", "Angel", "Merry-Go-Round", and "Lelio".In an interview with Japanese magazine "S Cawaii", she stated that one of the reasons she moved to Los Angeles was in order to base her work there and her personal life in Japan; she quoted, "Now that I'm living in L.A., I thought 'I want to do work I could only do in L.A.' I was very proactive about it."