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Wikipedia gives the release as November 8, 2011, while a Ghostly retail listing and MusicBrainz give October 4, with a US CD and vinyl on November 15. Hansen played bass, drums, guitar and keyboards and did the mixing, mastering and artwork, with Zac Brown on guitars and bass and Jianda Johnson on vocals. He switched from Cakewalk Sonar to REAPER during the making, and bought a mini Moog Model B partway through, which became its centerpiece. He told Beats Per Minute that the album was almost entirely written on guitar and that he aims for a 1970s approach, using destructive recording through real tape when possible. He said I see these songs as artifacts from a future. It reached 22 on Billboard's dance and electronic albums chart.

Metacritic scores it 80; Pitchfork gave it 7.0, AllMusic 3.5 of 5 and PopMatters 8 out of 10, ranking it third among the electronic albums of 2011. Spin's Eric Harvey called it a pretty and sturdily crafted collection of techno maybe-memories, and Drowned in Sound said its layered synths conspire to form the world's most complicated doorbell. A tenth-anniversary double LP on orange and red vinyl came out in December 2022.