 Early copies of the album sold via Rough Trade's physical and online stores featured a bonus CD-R, "The Life of the World in Flux".It contains early drafts of most of songs which appears on the main album and some that do not, and stylistically resembles both the band's pre-2002 albums and the 2005 "The Sunset Tree" LP.The album was positively reviewed by critics, gaining 78/100 points on Metacritic.