 Cole would later say, "It strikes me that there's something really fresh on the first album which has been dragged onto the second album, and the freshness is not there and something to replace the freshness is not there either".Bass player Lawrence Donegan was more succinct, describing the album as "terrible".The band intended "Easy Pieces" to be more accessible than "Rattlesnakes", with Cole saying, "We wanted the sound to be warmer, more luscious".