Produced by Brad Jones, who had worked on albums for bands such as Yo La Tengo, "Comfortable" featured a crunchier, poppier, more guitar-driven sound than "Monkeys" and received generally much improved reviews. The Village Voice called it "a phenomenal upgrade" and remarked that "Pee Shy make sexiness and marketability look cool and substantive," although the newspaper's critic also criticized the band as "introverted." Veteran "Voice" music critic Robert Christgau listed two of Wheeler's songs from the album—the peppy love-gone-wrong lament "Mr. Whisper" and the mellower "Much Obliged"—as "choice cuts," alongside "We've Got It Goin' On" by the Backstreet Boys.