The album's music style was described by Ross Horton of The Line of Best Fit as a "heady brew of trad punk, post-punk, country and new wave and their look is a combination of unlicensed doorman menace and tracksuit couch slacker".

[6] The album features three short techno interludes: "Cave Hole", "Globe Earth" and "Human Error", courtesy of producer DJ Haydn.

Where the first (2018's Street Worms) was a note-perfect, hermetically-sealed recreation of old thrills, and the second (2021's Welfare Jazz) was an expansive and expanded take on the same source material, this one draws from a new well".

Winwood gave specific praise to the tracks "Ain't No Thief", "Return to Monke", and "Creepy Crawlers".

The interplay of the rhythm section, vocal layering, and the occasional sax tear elides some of the weaker lyrics, and the album's bass-forward gloss recalls Danger Mouse's back catalog of rock-oriented production work (Parquet Courts' Wide Awake, The Black Keys' El Camino, Portugal.

[19] All tracks are written by Oscar Carls, Pelle Gunnerfeldt, Linus Hillborg, Henrik Höckert, Elias Jungqvist, Sebastian Murphy and Tor Sjöden, except where noted.Viagra Boys Additional musicians Production