[2] According to the liner notes on Bandcamp, Sputnik variously recorded the album in their bedroom, a rehearsal space, a cabin in the mountains, a bog, and a city.

[3][4] Late into the mixing process, Sputnik switched to a desktop application of GarageBand, on which they made major EQ and panning adjustments.

"[10] Although the album's sound has been widely compared to Car Seat Headrest's,[2][8][11] Sputnik stated that the band's work was not a conscious influence on their own.

[3] They have listed their influences as including The Brave Little Abacus, Shinsei Kamattechan, and My Chemical Romance,[3] along with visual media such as Ghost in the Shell and Mother.

[2] Camp also described it as a "queer confessional"[2] and Dotiyal called it "a picture-perfect portrait of Sputnik as much as it is a puzzle of their characteristic nuances as a nonbinary artist.

Writing for Atwood Magazine, Nick Matthopolous described it as "a fantastic example of allowing multiple artistic directions to weave within and throughout the record without marring the piece as a whole" and praised Sputnik's "broad creative sensibilities".

[11] Marvin Dotiyal of ACRN Media found the lo-fi quality to be crucial to the album's atmosphere and wrote that "the ambiance buzzes like a fridge waiting to be opened".

"[9] Luke Whitaker of The Pacific Index referred to the album as Sputnik's magnum opus and called it a "modern relative classic", saying that it had the potential to reach a similar level of internet success to Twin Fantasy, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, and The Glow Pt.