[14][18] The announcement described the new release as an "expanded creative universe and prodigious conceptual project,"[15] rather than a traditional album,[16][18][19] offering the following description of its underlying concept:"As human beings, what we don’t know vastly overshadows what we do know.

[23] Bacon's Executive Managing Producer, Magne Lygner, later informed FLOOD Magazine that "initially, the approach was for one director for the whole concept," with the band considering Andreas Nilsson for the role.

"[23] Talking with Creative Review, Berge explained that this concept was partially inspired by the films of David Lynch, such as 2001's Mulholland Drive, which they felt were about evoking reactions in the observer, rather than them "just… being passive."

Because scheduling constraints prevented Nilsson from taking on the entire project, instead Lygner suggested a broader collaboration, with nine of the company's directors each creating a short film to accompany one song in the collection.

"If You Want Me", featuring singer-songwriter Susanne Sundfør, was released with both another Zawada-made visualizer and another accompanying short film, Mycelium, directed by Martin Werner.

[28] Espen Borge of NRK P3 stated that "the duo's latest work shows an unmistakable «röyksoppian» relaxation and almost nonchalant belief in their own sound.

[30] Tallulah Boote Bond of The Line of Best Fit noted that "Röyksopp uses the treasures found on their eight year gap to create a theatrical, dramatic, literal work of art" and that the album is "a move towards a more organic electronic sound".

"[37] In addition to the music, the album's accompanying video elements (both visualizers and short films) also received praise from critics,[31][37] with Piatowski describing them as "a gorgeous visual interpretation of the music" and Clash Magazine's Kieran Macdonald-Brown describing the project overall as "an engaging, expressive multimedia universe suspended in digital mystery, a sum of many components meticulously executed … best experienced as an audiovisual entity, with each track forged as two sides of one coin" (though noting that "every piece of this puzzle soars in its own right").