Lullabies After Storms and Floods was largely inspired by band leader Hegerat’s work as a grassroots organizer during the COVID-19 pandemic, the compositional content of the album provides both a critique of the institutions and systems which threaten our very existence, and utopian imaginings of a healing world. The hope behind Parade is that the music dwells on all we have to celebrate, while acknowledging all we have to mourn.