In 2004, LO-MAX Records released an expanded CD which included a second disc of eleven bonus tracks and music videos for the songs "Spring Rain" and "Head Full of Steam" (Single Version).

[1] The band had signed a deal with an English branch of the label Elektra, which closed two weeks into the album's recording.

And if we had produced those songs the way radio demands – like, if we'd used drum machines and just had synthesisers do most of the stuff – I think we could have got a hit.

Our intention was to expand on the crisp, woody sound of Before Hollywood, to include a grander, more exotic range of instrumentation.

"[6] In his review for The Village Voice, Robert Christgau wrote that "there are no popsters writing stronger personal love songs.

"[17] AllMusic noted, "Robert Forster's endearingly fey persona, equal parts Bryan Ferry and gangly bookstore clerk, reaches full flower on the Go-Betweens' fourth album, which tempers the angularity and occasional claustrophobia of the band's previous work with a new airiness and nervous romanticism.

"[7] Mojo said the album was "organic, homespun, with echoes of Australian country in its classicist rock novellas".