Intended as a reaction against “the culture of death that was around” at the time, the album is also far more positive in comparison to Bullen's work with This Heat; its "koanic" and "ephemeral" lyrics subverting common linguistic cliches and tropes through repetition.

[4] The album also features influences from what would go on to be called "world music", like the track "Traveling" which "places a wild, Middle Eastern-tinged clarinet over a Greek bouzouki strummed with raga-like intensity, laying the path for globetrotting psychedelic punks like Sun City Girls.

"[5] A Popmatters review similarly noted that the track "Decide" "carries a distinctly Jamaican aroma but there’s as much Bali and Krautrock on the rest of the record as there is Rasta rock.

"[5][6][3] Similar to This Heat's "Cenotaph" (off of their final album), the lyrics also consist of "[s]elf-help altruisms, textbook histories, [and] familiar parlance, repeated ad infinitum until the very fibre of each cliche becomes porous and their meanings subverted.

"[5] It would, however, go on to become a "sought-after collector’s item that change[d] hands for hundreds of dollars a time"[10] and "a holy grail for fans of weird, inventive and life-affirming music, a remarkable feat for an obscure one-off project.

"[6] Conversely, a mixed review came from Jedd Beaudoin of Spectrum Culture who found the album to be inconsistent, citing the tracks "Distance No Object" and "Patience" as being dated and monotonous respectively.