Anya Marina and Matt Pond are both accomplished performers and songwriters in their own right, having long careers behind them with music featured in Grey’s Anatomy, the Twilight: New Moon Soundtrack, The Vow, The OC, How I Met Your Mother, to name just a few. In 2023, they married and began to collaborate on music. "We both hear the same midtown trains cutting through the pitch-black quiet of Kingston, NY. 'You can’t deal with the past, and I can’t handle the future. Self-doubt and fire in our guts.' This is our anthem. 'Distant Trains' lives in that space between fear and full-on belief, knowing that life keeps moving forward, whether we're ready for it or not." This is part of a larger album with videos and promotion planned around it.