Vital is the sixth studio album by Anberlin.Vital follows the group's 2010 effort Dark Is The Way, Light Is A Place, paring down the musicians' musical tendencies and influences to their essential form and culling together Anberlin's decade of existence.The idea this time was to bring everything the musicians have learned while reinvigorating the music with the spark that initially fueled the Florida band during their early years of slogging around the country in a van.

As the band embraced their roots, they also brought in new ideas, driven by the songs and albums the musicians had been listening to lately. The surging electro indie pop crafted by artists like Active Child and M83 trickled into the songs, melding the band's past with their present in a way that will still feel genuine to fans.The album's production was performed by Aaron Sprinkle, who produced the band's first three albums. Promoted by the band as their "most aggressive" album yet, the album lives up to and goes well beyond expectations.