In 2001, the Kills showcased new songs on a demo tape; however, the pair shunned approaches from major record labels.

Recording as VV and Hotel, they contributed the song "Restaurant Blouse" to the compilation If the Twenty-First Century Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent It.

The record was lo-fi in both musical and aesthetic terms.

Musically, the record was a sparse, lo-fi garage rock/blues hybrid though the band cites Captain Beefheart, PJ Harvey, LCD Soundsystem, The Velvet Underground, The Fall, Patti Smith, Suicide and Royal Trux as immediate influences; the music press has largely compared them to The White Stripes.

All tracks are written by The Kills, except "Dropout Boogie" written by Don Van Vliet and Herb Bermann This article about a punk rock album from the 2000s is a stub.