The record marked their first studio album to be released without the aid of a Grammy-nominated producer (Machine producing their first record, Alex Newport producing their second); as well as their first studio album not released on Best Before Records.

The album was assigned a Metacritic rating of 66, indicating "generally favourable reviews".

[3] Some controversy arose when the NME website chose a writer who had already had disagreements with the band's lead singer Alexei[4][5] to review the album.

[6] This writer gave the album a highly negative review and a score of 3.0/10.

The double vinyl version of the album adds the Certain Songs are Cursed EP—minus the original mix of "What Drummers Get"—and two original songs from the (Don't) Show Us Your Fangs and You vs Everything singles.