and record store owner Roy Colbert called them "The Stooges with Beatles melodies", and described the album as "a collection of post-punk power, pure pop, macabre melodrama, whoop n' holler bizarre bop, sublime ice-cold beauty, three-chord thunder [and] chaotic psychedelia, [...] "pegging the slower, more dramatic songs as better realised, while noting a good take on three-chord punk perennial 'Pull Down the Shades', and exciting new material, including 'Bedroom'."

In April 2005, the album was remastered and released along with a number