He spent months in his bedroom in Inglewood, California working on it, comparing his room to "those movies where a dude is trying to figure out a crime and they have pieces of yarn connected to pins on the wall."

[12] Clash's James Mellen calls the album "a shapeshifting creation, blasting through acoustic balladry, hip-hop elements and frantic distorted guitars."

"[14] DIY's Emma Swann calls the album "an exhilarating meeting of grunge, pop-punk and indie with hip hop rhythms", comparing to "Beck if he'd used a palette of early '00s MTV2."

Swann further compares "Three Heads" as "mak[ing] like Bloc Party's "Helicopter" at slow speed to soundtrack a nu metal vocal break", "0-Heroes" as "giv[ing] Nirvana guitars a stadium-sized chorus", says "Screw Face" and "Porn Acting" "could've fallen right out of Fidlar's catalogue", and notes "a smirk towards Billie Eilish's "Bury a Friend" amid the industrial glitches" of "Kids Eat Pills".

While Dawson "communicates what it means and what it could look like to embrace your inner-outsider", Kohner feels "often left waiting for that sentiment to manifest in full musically, by subverting genre conventions with a foot unflinchingly pressed on the proverbial gas pedal of experimentalism."