It is the final release included in the band's 2012 vinyl box set incorporating the trilogy and related works, suggesting that the band regards it as thematically connected, and can be regarded as an epilogue to the trilogy.

They don’t stray far from the center, keeping things even more tightly reined in than Paracletus.

But while that may seem like creative fatigue or ennui the first time through, after a while, Drought reveals itself to be so tightly packed that most of the details fly by you.

"[6] Pitchfork were more critical, writing that "the six parts themselves are good, but they're pieced together clumsily.

The lengthy instrumentals that serve as bookends seem simply tacked on, surrounding the other four tracks rather than frame them."