Under pressure from Polydor, they veered away from the harder Monk's style to a softer sound more like the mainstream music of the day.

[4] The recording of "I'm Watching You" was obtained by Gary Burger with the collection of one of the Monks' managers, Walther Niemann,[5] who had died.

After Burger died, Blackwell and Eddie Shaw approached his widow inquiring if there were any other Monks recordings in the collection.

[5] Pitchfork gave the EP a 6.9 out of 10 stating that the lighter tone of the music reflects the Monks' Hamburg contemporaries rather than the proto-punk pioneers they became revered as.

[7] All tracks are written by Gary Burger, Larry Clark, Dave Havlicek, Roger Johnston, and Eddie Shaw