 "Release the Stars", the title track and album closer, has a "brassy Broadway swagger".The song's lyrical inspiration comes from Lorca Cohen, Leonard's daughter, "missing the New York show" (referring to one of the Judy Garland tribute concerts Wainwright performed in June 2006 at Carnegie Hall).The images on the album's front cover, back cover, and liner notes are from the gigantomachy frieze at the Pergamon Altar in Berlin.