 The first layer was the primary compositional elements, "things people are used to picking up on instantly," including rhythm, melody, harmonic structure, and timbre.The second factor is the signals of the culture or time period affiliation of the samples.The album's vocals are sampled from 1990s R&B and pop, and, as Rankin stated, the time of the source material is indicated by the "extra-musical layer" of the "tiny affectations in the original vocals."