PopMatters wrote that it "not only outdoes its predecessor, it reaches a level of top-notch songwriting most groups never attain on a greatest hits compilation.

The band released a follow-up soon thereafter with 2014's Sitcom Afterlife, which detailed a breakup in Milia's life with "lyrics as dense as a Faulkner novel," according to Paste Magazine.

[8] In the summer of 2015, Milia and Frontier Ruckus recorded their 5th LP Enter the Kingdom in Nashville with Ken Coomer, founding member of Wilco and final drummer for Uncle Tupelo.

In December 2016, Milia spoke with Rolling Stone, who announced the album was due out in February 2017 and premiered a music video for the single "27 Dollars.

[10] In a positive review of Enter the Kingdom for Noisey, legendary rock critic Robert Christgau wrote of Milia: "Somebody marry this winsome sad sack, whose increasingly plausible rhymes now include open-ibuprofen, gauche-precocious-neurosis, salad on the tennis court-valid passport, speckled melanin-freckled up your skin, and the very sexy errands-gerunds.

As a pedal steel guitarist, Milia has performed or recorded with Cotton Jones, Anna Burch, Bonny Doon, Ohtis, Chris Bathgate, and others.

[14] In 2015, Milia's Detroit home which he shared with bandmate Anna Burch was featured on the interior design website Apartment Therapy.

In an interview with Metro Times, Milia described the set of highly melodic power pop songs that constitute the album as a result of shirking music industry expectations and remaining prolific as a writer for purer reasons, saying, "It's the writing part that I still wake up every day and want to do.

BrooklynVegan called the album "a gorgeous dose of indie folk," as it features lush layers of vocal harmony accompanied by mellotron, trumpet, cello, mandolin, Hammond organ, and pedal steel guitar.