It deals with technology, as I literally had a pack of lightbulbs that were color changing and the app on my phone wanted the permission to be able to read my text messages and that freaked me out, and I related the paranoia of this to how a whole generation of people are caught in this space where we've grown up in a situation where we cannot separate what we love to do from a very mechanized relationship with metrics – play versus economics.

Writing at BrooklynVegan, Amanda Hatfield praised the anti-capitalist lyrics on this release and stated that "it's a satisfying followup to [2021 album] Sucker Supreme without straying too far from what made that album so appealing".

[4] In Rolling Stone, Rob Sheffield characterized this release as "definitely a portrait of North America in our moment, set in a culture where non-sponsored fun is just a rumor, where your phone is spying on you, where every small-time artist has to turn into a full-time huckster just to keep making their art" and compared the music to Juliana Hatfield, Minutemen, and that dog.

[1] On June 4, writers at Stereogum did a roundup of the best albums of the year so far and ranked this 32, with James Rettig stating "Tucker's songs are sarcastic and wry and unbelievably catchy".

[5] Nate Sloan of Vulture called this release "something of a fresh start" and "a distinctly different artistic approach" for Tucker.