Paste's Henry Freedland said that it exhibits Vivian Girls' fusion of art punk and shoegaze-pop,[9] while NME noted the presence of garage rock elements.

[11] NME stated that "between the omnipresent slabs of reverb, the trio flip between harmonic garage rock, gloomy melodies and twee-Birthday Partyisms".

[10] Jesse Darlin' of Plan B praised the songs' melodies as "all hard and spiky on the outside and gooey on the inside, like tough girl music should be.

McDermott wrote of audiences' desire to hear "something catchy but not polished, raw but not mean" in music beyond the "pastoral-sounding boy bands and Coachella-band psych" common at the time.

[7] All tracks are written by Vivian Girls (Katy Goodman, Cassie Ramone and Frankie Rose)Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.