Much like The Race For Space, which relived the story of the American and Soviet space race from 1957-1972, Every Valley is a concept album chronicling the history of the mining industry in Wales, specifically the rise and decline of the country's coal industry.
The band's lead songwriter, J Willgoose, Esq., describes the album's premise as an allegory for today's "abandoned and neglected communities across the western world, which have led to a malignant, cynical and calculating brand of politics".
Every Valley was recorded in the former steelworks town of Ebbw Vale in southern Wales, with the band making use of a former convention space used by the town's local workers institute for recordings.
