Prior to Belief, Bryan Hollon had already established himself as a multi-instrumentalist and producer who had been nominated for the Mercury Prize. Stella Mozgawa, the drummer for Warpaint, has provided percussion to albums by Kurt Vile, Cate le Bon, Courtney Barnett, Sharon Van Etten, and Kim Gordon, among others. Her list of credits is as significant. However, as the improvisational techno duo Belief, the two create music that is reminiscent of 90s bands like LFO and 808 State, who profoundly but largely unnoticed changed club and rave culture. These musicians were typically recognized by clear, bright logos on 12" sleeves. When Boom Bip and Warpaint shared a rehearsal space in Echo Park, Hollon first got to know Mozgawa shortly after she joined the band. The two grew close over their shared interest in early Warp Records, drum breaks, acid house, and rave flyers from the year 2000. When Mozgawa performed drums for Neon Neon's 2013 West Coast tour, they shared playlists and ideas, but because of their hectic schedules, it would be another three years before they hauled all of their equipment into Eric Wareheim's Absolutely Studios for their first jam session. Mozgawa was able to explore a genre of music she had long regarded as a gloomy art, and Hollon, known for his rigorous planning in earlier works, was forced to be more impromptu by playing instinctively to each other's talents and whims and recording the session to build on afterwards. The band's evolution became centered on improvisation. Over the course of the following four years, they managed to find sporadic free time to revisit the project, adding 303s whenever possible. In some of their early performances, they identified themselves as "Beef" in a playful nod to the project's throbbing minimalism. It was all in good fun, but as they finalized and recorded compositions with a more enigmatic and soulful tone, more respectful threads started to emerge..

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