 Raposa had planned to publish a novel to accompany the album, which failed to surface.Amanda Petrusich of Pitchfork.com compared Raposa's writing on "Cathedral" to that of the poet Seamus Heaney.She described the album as a collection of 'deep gothic ballads' of 'country music [that] should sound like death, and more specifically, death-by-murky-submersion'.