Musically, the CD is a mixed bag. The opening track, "Inside My Head," starts off haunting and tense, then builds to a crescendo but keeps the tension with vaguely techno drums in the back. The lead single, "Mexico," is catchy energetic alt-rock reminiscent of Dispatch. "Vanity" brings keyboardist and vocalist Leah Felder to the front and focuses on a bouncy pop-rock piano line with a spacey breakdown in the middle. The closing track, "I Lost You," is a soft acoustic groove that sounds like a cross between mellow Days of the New and new age guitar. There's nothing particularly complex about the arrangements, and most of the songs are catchy and if you don't like them at first, they'll grow on you within a few listens.

Lyrically, the CD stays in pretty much the same territory-breakups, lost love, and self pity. And cigarettes, which are referenced repeatedly. The first verse of the opening track says, "Heart falls out as I decompose/My life, it ends right here on this dark day;" two tracks later, we hear, "So now that my love has left me/The only thing left is to die." "Perfect World" laments, "I can't let go/Until I hate myself/So where's the perfect world for me?" Almost standard emo fare, but Brandon's waxing poetic is far more creative.