It is a modern chamber music work, encompassing jazz in the Django and Grappelli vein with a haunting, acoustic soundscape that might have served as a film score.

Reviews were uniformly positive, with critics noting the more introspective and entirely instrumental turn, save for the closing lullaby.

That final track, with lyrics by Mike Coykendall, was a response to the death of guitarist Mark Orton's wife Lauren in a rafting accident.

[6] "March of the Smallest Feet" appeared on the documentary A Fierce Green Fire (2012).

[7] "The Longest Night" was used as the background music for the flash game Tri-Achnid by Edmund McMillen.