Forgiving Season follows the emotional high of Elijah Wolf's 2021 full length album Brighter Lighting (which featured Wilco’s Nels Cline on guitar) and a run of prestigious tour dates and performances. For this record, he explains that “I wrote a record about vulnerability, about the ways that mechanisms of self-protection can make you miss the good around you." The result is a vulnerable 10-song collection that is a testament to collaboration and experimentation.