Belief was recorded by electronic music producer Bryan Hollon and drummer Stella Mozgawa over a period of five years beginning with jam sessions in Eric Wareheim's studios in 2016. Hollon told Talkhouse that the recording process was unusual for both of them, "really what we were inspired by was that kind of early '90s acid house scene, which a lot of times that was one or two people with a bunch of machines hooked into each other playing live, because there really wasn’t a good way to track things in that era separately"