The EP showed a change in sound for the band, featuring longer songs, more personal lyrics and psychedelic influence in the guitar work.

[1] Many of the musical elements on the EP would be featured in the band members' later projects, including Fifteen, Pinhead Gunpowder and Cleveland Bound Death Sentence.

In April 1988, shortly after hiring new guitarist Idon Bryant, Crimpshrine went to Dancing Dog Studios in Emeryville, California with Kevin Army to record its debut full-length.

The tour was contentious and due to tensions within the group, Bryant and bassist Pete Rypins left the band abruptly after a show in Texas and went home, leaving guitarist/vocalist Jeff Ott and drummer Aaron Elliot stranded.

[4] After the tour ended in December 1988, the group released the recordings from the aforementioned session (with other unreleased songs) on the label Musical Tragedies as Lame Gig Contest.