It was preceded by the single "The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future", a free download released in September 2009, which was described by Vulture as a classic of the emo genre, "even if no one really knew what to call it" at the time.
This release followed the single "The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future", a free download from September 2009 that was recognized by Vulture as a classic in the emo genre, though its classification remained unclear at the time.