A Hyperactive Workout for the Flying Squad is the seventh studio album by English rock band Ocean Colour Scene.

[5] The slow-paced, cello-driven "I Love You" is a tribute to Roy Orbison and the Velvet Underground, and is followed by the violin-focused "This Day Should Last Forever", which include an accordion, fiddle and a mandolin.

[8] The album ends with two more cover version: "Start of the Day" by the Real People and "My Time" by Bob Andy, the latter of which is an offbeat reggae song with drummer Oscar Harrison on lead vocals.

[17] AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine called the album a "tasteful, well-crafted, earnest collection of classicist rock."

[7] BBC Music contributor Dan Tallis wrote that the album was not as "instantly commercially accessible" as the band's most popular release, Moseley Shoals (1996), it was "certainly a return to form.

"[19] Raphael Costambeys-Kempczynski of PopMatters wrote that the tracks on the album "sound like they were written for the pub circuit", which he theorised was "the reason why they’ve never managed to really take the scene by storm."

"[5] The List writer Allan Radcliffe said that aside from "My Time", the album was "pretty much what you'd expect from [the band]: plaintive, anthemic choruses and oodles of insipid lyrics".

[18] Gigwise's Chris Saunders wrote that the band "sound exactly like they did when they were last here", with an album that "just doesn't say anything new, push any boundaries or even get close to stealing some of the limelight away" from newer acts.