Softscars

[8] They shared the "glitchy, effervescent"[2] title track on September 14, the inspiration behind it being the "garden" of their mind, which is "dark and prickly sweet and sticky".

[10] While the album will be released digitally through Bayonet on September 22, physical copies will be available on October 6 via Ninja Tune,[11] to whom they had signed earlier that year.

[13] Editors at Stereogum chose this release for Album of the Week, with critic Margaret Ferrell writing that the music feels "electrifyingly urgent", she also praises the lyrics that have "a spiraling reconciliation with the harmful search for perfection".

[22] Pitchfork awarded it their "Best New Music" distinction, with Ryan Dombal commenting that Yeule "shifts from future-shocked electronic pop to a super-sized emotional bloodletting steeped in '90s alternative" and calling the album "a blast, its turbo-charged riffs and sticky melodies all but begging you to crank the volume up".

[19] Writing for Beats Per Minute, John Amen commented, "There's a confluence of pop, futurism, and poetic self-deprecation here that could almost rewrite contemporary XM".