"Not Capable of Love" combines bracing Pixies-style fuzz guitar with a buoyant bass line reminiscent of the Cure and builds to a soaring chorus scratched by aching vulnerability; "Cardiff-By-The-Sea" resounds with melancholy pop hooks, but echoes with ominous warbling guitars redolent of My Bloody Valentine and Swervedriver. "And We All Become Like Smoke" reveals still another side of the Ataris, incorporating angular guitars, tendrils of feedback, pastel color washes and yearning vocals that bring to mind The Bends-era Radiohead.