[4] "Morticia" is a cover of the Addams Family tune, composed by Vic Mizzy.

[5] The recording of the album was delayed by more than a year in order for Combustible Edison to work on the soundtrack to Four Rooms.

"[13] The Los Angeles Times opined that "perhaps the optimal (and only) way to appreciate it is with a luridly exotic drink in hand and a steady conversational buzz in the foreground.

"has a haunting quality reminiscent of Fellini film scores by the late Nino Rota"; the paper also picked it as one of the 10 best albums of 1996.

[14][15] AllMusic wrote that "there's some melancholia and weariness to the torch vocal-influenced numbers in particular, which betrays an ironic, modernist bent absent from first-generation cocktail/lounge.