[4] Several years after graduating from college, Moerder, Sylvester and Morello had relocated to Brooklyn and started practicing and writing together as Mr. Dream.
The first single released from the album was "Fringy Slider" which was described as having a sound similar to "an early Franz Ferdinand track.
[13] Critical reception was largely favorable, with Stereogum listing them as one of their top 40 new bands of 2010 "because they write smart, ballsy songs.
"[14] The Fader praised them as "an antidote to the pulseless navel-gazing of certain lo-fi softies of late" and also noted that they don't "suck," despite their music critic background.
[16] Mr. Dream was compared to Franz Ferdinand,[17]The Jesus Lizard, Pixies,[18] Hüsker Dü and The Wipers.