Production was rushed as the band was supposed to have the album completed within two weeks.

However, after their engineer disappeared during the recording sessions, the band was forced to rush the album to meet deadlines.

This came about due to criticism of the album's nonsensical lyrics in a review written by The Village Voice,[7] which greatly affected Brody.

[8] Andrew Bregman from AllMusic noted the album is "a story with an uncharacteristic ending that punks born of squalor can rise up and create music as impassioned and relatively positive as this", also calling it "authentic".

In a 2003 piece called "Bands to Watch," Tim Kenneally from Spin wrote, "the band conjures the spirit of ’77 with razor-bladeriffery while [Brody] shouts about urban blight, school shootings, and her troubled youth".