[2] Peter ‘Sonic Boom’ Kember of Spacemen 3 mentored the band through its creation,[3] mixed and performed on the track 'Through The F Hole',[4] contributed a liner note poem to the Japanese CD version,[5] and guest deejayed at the record's London release concert.

Band leader Greg Jarvis has stated that the goal of the album was to build classical tangents from The Velvet Underground & Nico and the Spacemen 3 / early Spiritualized sound.

[6] The album received coverage from a significant amount of UK press outlets including Q magazine, Rock Sound, Time Out, The Evening Standard, The Times and Metro, along with feature interviews in Japan's major music magazines (Loud, Rockin'On Japan), and reviews from key US sites (Pitchfork, AllMusic).

[7][1] The release was praised for building on a unique combination of the sounds of the early Velvet Underground and the Flowers of Hell's Spacemen 3 mentors by adding strings and trumpets.

[8][9] Some reviews were critical that tracks meandered,[3][7] yet all were in consensus that the record marked the arrival of a group to watch[10][9][1] with The Times declaring it "classical music for shoegazers".