Originally rising from the ashes of angular D.C. punk band Smart Went Crazy, Beauty Pill transformed over the years from a post-rock band with unconventional instrumentation to a genre-defying project shaped around the songwriting and conceptual ideas of founding member Chad Clark. After an active time in the early 2000s, the band was semi-dormant for many years before returning in 2015 with their critically lauded sophomore album Beauty Pill Describes Things as They Are. The group grew more experimental from there, infusing their sound with electronics, symphonic elements, and lyrics centered around sharp social critiques on EP releases like 2020's Please Advise and 2021's Instant Night. In 2023, archival collection Blue Period was released.