Jon Hughes is not looking to create mass appeal. His previous full length album, Roger White, was based on the self-published autobiography of a man of the same name found in a random internet search. Preceding that was an album that studied modern and historical murders through the lens of Russian film and literature. His music is literary, as influenced by writers such as Donald Barthelme, Cormac McCarthy, and Vladimir Nabokov as it is by various musical artists (musically, he might invoke Elliott Smith, King Creosote, T-Rex, Nick Drake, and some other artists nearer the vicinity of his abouttown of Green Bay, Wisconsin—Dylan, Wilco). He's less interested in making you relate to what he's saying than to making you think about it. His music is slow burning, and while the music might not instantly grab you, when it does, it digs in deep.