The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste for the album. Bill Rieflin and Chris Connelly instead attributed the album's sound to the band's interest in technology. For pre-production, Rieflin said he and Barker watched films for a month, sampling anything that caught their interest. Instead of writing music, they all improvised individually, rarely collaborating with each other. Connelly compared it to exquisite corpse, a Surrealist technique in which an artistic work is created collaboratively without any of the participants having knowledge of the others' contribution. Rieflin cited "So What" as the only track to feature two musicians in the studio at the same time. After playing with
What to Expect When No One's Expecting for "The New York Review of Books". Elizabeth Kolbert discussed the book along with many others in an article for "The New Yorker" about population. Last wrote a response to Kolbert's review, and Daniel Halper concurred with Last's assessment of the review, claiming that Kolbert "gets it completely wrong." A "New York Times" article in April 2013 listed Last's book as one of many that was raising a "false alarm" about declining US fertility. What to Expect When No One's Expecting What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster is a book by the "Weekly Standard" columnist