Crazy Eyes

The album marked a change in sound from prior Filter albums, moving into a direction Patrick coined as "new industrial". He described it as "...more experimental and crazy...scary, weird places instead of doing that big-ass guitar sound again." Billboard described it as "...hardly bereft of guitars but there are a substantial amount of electronics and effects in use. The result features heavy industrial crunch and solemn, ambient songs that reach back to Patrick’s time in Nine Inch Nails and the first Filter album, 1995’s Short Bus.
Thematically, the album still keeps with the band's themes of frustration and anger. Additionally, Patrick described it as an attempt "to look at people's unexplainable behavior and assess it, using sound. It's a way to approximate the insanity of the human condition." The track "Take Me to Heaven" was written by Patrick's struggle with dealing with the death of his father.