 According to the program notes given out during Beirut's performance at The Society for Ethical Culture in New York on September 24, 2007, each song on the album is intended to evoke a different French city (although Guaymas, Sonora is a Mexican city).The album's second track, "Nantes", was sampled on the 2012 10 Day mixtape from American rapper Chance the Rapper.The cover photograph was taken in Brittany, France during the 1930s.