Papa Vs Pretty - United In Isolation (2011)

Conceptually, Thomas Rawle has described United in Isolation as "almost a concept album", with a main lyrical "focal point". "In a very broad sense, it's about human nature's desire to always be coupled with another, and how love can sometimes be a vessel of selfishness. It's almost like animal behavior, and I guess we are animals, just with language and ego". in regards to their previous releases from a musical perspective, bassist Angus Gardiner likens the band's musical evolution evident throughout United in Isolation as "like a windy road that's slowly becoming straight. At the start we were covering so much ground and now it's all sort of funneling into one direction". Adding to the discussion of the more focused musical direction of United in Isolation, singer/guitarist Thomas Rawle said "I feel like people couldn't really gauge our direction before [with previous EPs] but now they should have a very good idea of what we're about".