Back In Town is a “love song to New York”; the last song that Florence wrote before having to return to the UK after starting recording for Dance Fever in New York in March 2019.

Speaking to Absolute Radio, Florence states:

‘Back In Town’ was the last song I wrote when I got to New York. It’s kind of a love song to New York and the amazing sort of manic loneliness New York creates[…]
I had packed my bags to go and make Dance Fever and spend a month in New York. My fantasy always tricks me to think that I’m going off to have a kind of romantic adventure and it’s always an empty room[…] So I was already questioning my relationship to songwriting and performance, and then wrote Back In Town and had to get out of town.