The Oddjobs quintet had moved from Minnesota to New York three and a half years before releasing Expose Negative, during which they had enjoyed their critical and commercial peak with their album Drums.

"It was kind of a dark period" for the band, rapper Nomi (Mario Demira) wrote later,[2] and led to the group's breakup.

[3] The musical visions of the group's two producers, Deetalx (Devon Callahan) and Anatomy (Stephen Lewis), had begun to diverge before the last Oddjobs record, Expose Negative.

Expose Negative became entirely a Deetalx production, while Anatomy worked instead on what would become the debut self-titled record by Kill the Vultures.

Rapper Crescent Moon (Alexei Casselle) told an interviewer in 2006, "Oddjobs was always very producer-based, so Steve and Devon had a very large role in the directions of the songs we were making.