[3][4] It was made with the same line-up that appeared on the band's previous album, The Good Earth.

It features fewer acoustic tracks, with a "greater focus on speedy jangle-strum rockers".

[10] Magnet wrote that "the songs grapple with apprehension and the longing for comfort, which the music delivers in the form of indelible hooks and transcendent rave-ups.

"[18] Rolling Stone wrote: "Driven by the interlocking guitars of Mercer and Bill Million, the band constructs waves of beautiful hypnotic drone, with subtle tempo shifts and percussion accents that ripple through the arrangements.

"[16] Trouser Press praised the "amazingly exacting sound and performances" and "riveting songs of breathless electricity.