[1] The band would go on to gain ample critical acclaim from many well respected publishing companies including Rolling Stone,[2] and The Guardian.

These singles featured b-sides culled from Handsome Western States, which remained unreleased in the U.K. and had fallen out of print in the U.S., until 2000 further copies were made available by the band in 1999, with different artwork.

The record gained a great degree of critical acclaim,[12] and the band continued to tour, despite having to cancel its European dates that winter.

Shortly after the release of the record, Steve La Follette and Bill Evans left the band and were replaced by Eli Crews and Pat Abernathy.

The mood of the album was much darker and the band phased back much of its instrumentation, preferring to create more of a live sound than layering multiple overdubs atop the mix.

Though it received the best reviews of the band's career, scoring Universal Acclaim on Metacritic and being described as a "career-spanning epic" by Dusted Magazine,[14] the record failed to achieve gold status.

After one final tour, the band split up, ending with a free concert at New York's Battery Park at Castle Clinton on August 5, 2004.

Miles Kurosky released his first solo album, The Desert of Shallow Effects, on March 9, 2010, via Majordomo Records, an imprint of Shout!

), The Desert of Shallow Effects includes a cast of more than two dozen musicians (among them several former Beulah members) playing a vast array of instruments.