It was released on April 3, 2001 on Lobster Records and is the first Yellowcard album to include Ryan Key as lead singer and guitarist.

Yellowcard released their first two albums – Midget Tossing (1997) and Where We Stand (1999) – through guitarist Ben Harper's label Takehold Records.

[4] Bassist Warren Cooke's brother was close friends with Stevan Lubarsky, who ran the Californian-based label Lobster Records.

[10] $15,000 had been spent making the album and promoting it, with the band helping the label (which consisted of two employees) stuff envelops and ship posters.

[16] It was pressed on vinyl for the first time in 2012, as joint release between label Shop Radio Cast and Lobster Records.

[18] AllMusic stated the album is "full of hooks and catchy choruses as strong as any of the syrupy sweet punk bands around southern California."

Sputnikmusic praised the band's inclusion of the violin and stated the album was a "rough draft of Ocean Avenue".

as well as stating the album had "above average, melodic punk, fusing energy and enthusiasm with creative chord progressions, classically-inspired riffs and harmonies aplenty[2] HM included the song "Something of Value" on the list of essential Yellowcard songs in a retrospective career review.