[1] It comprises performances of songs from their first album, A Light for Attracting Attention (2022), recorded at Montreux Jazz Festival on 12 July.

[2][3] The Smile announced the album the day before its release, backed by a concert film available to view for 48 hours on YouTube.

[5] Spin's Jonathan Rowe said the album demonstrated that the Smile were "no mere studio project" but "an actual, organic live band".

[9] In Pitchfork, Zach Schonfeld wrote: "Since the beginning, the Smile have been dogged by an eminently reasonable question: how is this not just two Radioheads stacked in a trench coat?

"[7] Both critics expressed disappointment that the album did not include the new songs the Smile had performed on their tour.