The group was founded and led by musician and producer Ed Ackerson after the breakup of his previous band, the 27 Various, with guitarist Jennifer Jurgens, bassist Jason Orris, and Trip Shakespeare's Matt Wilson on drums.

[6] Ackerson took a holistic approach to making music, viewing composition, performance, recording and post-production all as steps in a single process of creating a song.

[2] Alec Foege of Rolling Stone said that Polara was "one of the first indie bands to have computerization as second nature … seething with textured noise samples and programmed atmospheric squiggles."

"[3] Trouser Press writer Ira Robbins described the record as similar in concept to Polara's previous album: "psychedelic distortion, wild sound for the hell of it, crossed with tuneful songwriting and innocently cryptic lyrics.

"[4] Ned Raggett of Allmusic compared the album to Spiritualized and Oasis, and called it "a partially over-the-top but still enjoyable hour's worth of songs.