It is in large part a rerecorded version of an earlier album, tentatively entitled After the Astronaut, that was abandoned in 1998.

The song "The Shame of Life" was featured in the trailer for Phone Booth.

The song "Dracula From Houston" was featured in an episode of the NBC comedy series Scrubs.

Pitchfork Media was particularly negative about it, saying "The thin music seems to emanate from a TV you can't turn off.

Each song putters on a weak beat that jangles and blips as if they dumped the ambient sounds of a Midway arcade over some Black Grape outtakes."