press release calls the album "90s indie rock from an alternate universe[,] funky 80s glam combine[d] with all manner of psychedelia and noise.

"[2][3] In an interview The Jersey Journal, DeFranco details the songwriting, saying "it's all guitar-driven music, but we went through a bit of a Talking Heads phase as we were writing it so that kind of comes through.

"[4] The band describes Raging Hot as "four gentlemen from New Jersey who are deeply in love with music but completely frustrated by the mundane realities of modern life and use those emotions to create something fun.

[3] The lead single, "Are Two Dee Too," was released on October 21, 2016, which Goldberg explains as "finding your place in the world and contribute to making it better for everyone despite all of the terrible, horrifying things that happen all over, every day.

[4] Speak Into My Good Eye editor Mike Mehalick calls Raging Hot "ebbs of hard-charging riffage and flows of more angular instrumentation," and New Noise says the album is "bristling with incendiary energy and urgency.