[6] In the review, David talks about the album's sound comparing it to Smashing Pumpkins and Foo Fighters: The serenely ambient opener and title track "Everything Is Beautiful" is more than enough evidence for this.

It honestly wouldn't feel out of place on a Mogwai release, and while it's a relatively large departure from the nature of the rest of the album, it's a perfect way to start off the proceedings.

It's impressive how little Travis has to draw from his musical history to hit things out of the park: "It's All Over" mixes "sexy" vocals with a hypnotically melancholic guitar riff with a result that's far greater than the sum of its parts; "Too Loud / Too Cold" has an fantastically nostalgic alternative rock vibe, almost sounding like it could have come from the Foo Fighters or Smashing Pumpkins; and "Desperate" has a relentlessly funky chorus tempered by comparatively relaxed verses.

It's really only on "Casting Dreams" where Kurt brings some of his main band's sound into the mix... but the song quickly distinguishes itself when the fist-pumpingly catchy chorus hits.

And the lead single "Brain Lord" sounds like the style of predictable, vaguely DGD-influenced pop that most people would have expected from a Kurt solo outing, but still manages to be one of the more infectious tracks on the record.Deadpress presented the album with a rating of 6 out of 10 stars calling Travis' vocal range "the least striking of all of Dance Gavin Dance's vocalists past and present" and called it a "catchy and entertaining LP.