Crawlspace of the Pantheon

In Rolling Stone, the band's frontman Robert Pollard stated that the album, like its predecessor Thick Rich and Delicious, was recorded in a studio, despite the band members living in different areas across the country. Pollard praised the band's performances for being "tight and energetic". In regard to the songs themselves, Pollard stated that he spent more time working on the lyrics and that he aimed for the album to have an "overall emotional feel".^[3]