According to the "Minnesota Post", "After the release of 2005's "Stepping on My Hat," critics were nearly unanimous about the resemblance between Levin's music and that of the Police." Levin stated "I just don't like being so transparently unoriginal. I'd like to think they're an influence, but not I was doing an impersonation. I did take a harder look at my material...I started to realize that as hard as I had worked the first three CDs, I could've worked harder in raising the bar. Not letting any passage in a song go by and thinking, 'Oh, maybe I could have done that a little better.' "