All long hair and glasses and sandals and cigaretted he invited us to his house to record... Andrew challenged us in ways unforeseen.
He fed us copious amounts of stovetop espresso 3 hours past bedtime, he told us how Neil Young had always eaten a huge bowl of pasta right before a show, he reminded us that the records we loved and grew up on all lived in "no place", that Hall and Oates didn't get it right until their 10th try, and finally, he made us try again, and again, and again.
Tiny Mix Tapes found it to be "the band's strongest release to date," citing their developing songwriting skills, careful arrangements, and explosive energy and exuberance.
[3] Eric Harvey of Pitchfork said "the record is bursting at its seams with lovingly and vividly realized ideas culled from a broad selection of prior works...
Instead, they've smartly taken elements of their live show -- a heightened guitar presence, a more "electric" sound, energetic percussion—and meshed it with their ability to craft the beautifully quiet.