The Night the Sun Came Up is mainly an electropop and dance-pop album, which incorporates elements of several musical genres such as dubstep and urban.

In the United States, the album reached a peak of number sixty-one, selling 7,560 copies in its first week of release.

Devin Tailes recorded a cover of Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" in response to her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend, calling it a "diss track".

Months later, their song "2Nite" began to gain exposure on the radio, the television channel MTVU and the Billboard Hot Dance Airplay chart.

"[1] "Like a G6", which features the Cataracs and Dev, was released in April 2010, and reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in October of that year,[4] prompting Universal Republic to sign her on as an artist in the same month.

In 2011 The Cataracs and myself have the ability to change the game, blend the music world by providing the weird California swag and sound were on.

I feel like a lot of artists try to get there and it's almost there but the lingo is off, the beats are wrong and I can tell those things because we’ve already started the movement, that "pop revolution" everyone is talking about.

[5] She said that they were perfect producers for her, noting that "they made really fun songs for kids on the radio and at the same time they were normal boys, eating burritos, chilling in Berkeley", which is what she felt connected her with them.

[6] She hinted early on in the interview that she had an interest in working with other people for the album, noting that other producers and writers have contacted her.

"[6] On interview with Alex Kazemi of FashionIndie, Dev stated that their sessions are very different and complicated, further commenting "It really depends, some times the boys will come to me and say "I’ve been wanting to do this song but this is more of a DEV track" and from there Niles will show me the beat and me and David will come up with lyrics or some times I go to them when I have written some sort of idea and they will help me elaborate on it to the point where we can have a song.

The Night the Sun Came Up is primary an electropop and dance album, which incorporates elements of several different genres such as dubstep,[10] hip hop,[10] Eurodance, urban, rock and club influenced-pop music[10] Dev said that her mission with the album was to make it diversified, incorporating different elements of music to make an eclectic set.

[13] The next song "In My Trunk" runs through an electronic tinged hip hop beat and features vehicle metaphors in its lyrics.

'"[7] The sixth track, "Lightspeed", is an electronic pop song that in its production draws inspiration from house and club music.

[13] Its synth riff and beat structure resembles those in the music made by Dutch disc jockey Afrojack.

[14] The seventh track, "Dancing Shoes" is built upon synthesizers and drums while making use of pianos and guitars to produce an uptempo electronic rock ballad about performing onstage.

[11] In "Bass Down Low", the ninth song and first single, Dev speaks of taking shots and various forms of debauchery.

[16][18] The Night the Sun Came Up's tenth track "Kiss My Lips", the third single from the album in the United States, contains a guitar that blends synthesizers prominent in dance music with a hip hop styled drum beat.

"[11] Elysa Gardner from USA Today wrote that on the album "her fresh, lissome vocals are actually more intriguing than the textural, tonal and rhythmic shifts that pop up in the sometimes sweetly groovy but mostly unremarkable tunes.

[12] Neil Miller, Jr. of UR Chicago rated the album three out of five stars (on the site, they use meatballs), calling it "one of the most unbalanced pop records" ever released.

[24] In the United States, The Night The Sun Came Up debuted on the Billboard 200 chart on the week of April 14, 2012 at number sixty one with 6,700 copies sold.