[7][8] Roger Miller of Mission of Burma makes a guest appearance playing the piano in the track "An Uneasy Peace",[9][10] which is an updated version from that contributed to the hardcore punk compilation P.E.A.C.E.,[nb 1][10][11] released a year earlier on R Radical Records.

A mature mix of smart songwriting and deft, accomplished instrumentation, the album hints at the early "positive punk" of UK bands like Sex Gang Children or Furyo.

"[1]For his part, Ryan Foley, from The Music Museum of New England, commented: "[In the Proletariat's second album] The sense of urgency was heightened, the threat of violence more pointed.

On songs like "The Guns Are Winning" and "Homeland" the band tackled sociopolitical issues that are still relevant today..."[4]The punk zine Suburban Voice wrote: "... Texture and melody became an increasing part of the picture by the time [the Proletariat] had reached their second album, "Indifference", but it was without sacrificing the purity of rage.

Out of print after its original release,[5] Indifference would later resurface, in its entirety, on the band's 2-CD anthology Voodoo Economics and Other American Tragedies,[nb 7] compiled in 1998 by Taang!