It was released in 1997 by record label Nemo, included with the Andrew Brooksbank book Bauhaus: Beneath the Mask.

[1] Predating their debut studio album, the songs during this 25-minute rehearsal were performed live in one take with no overdubs, after the band had finished their official recording duties.

[2] Author Dave Thompson called the recording "raw, rough, and blistered by the shattered promise of punk's sordid dream, it captures Bauhaus before anything else got its claws in them."

[1] Tom Schulte of AllMusic said the album "is a fascinating document exhibiting the forbidding goth birth from the body of its parent and antipode."

Schulte remarked that it featured the group's "hallmark sound: attenuated pop guitar lines played low and hauntingly to frame Peter Murphy's dungeon vocals.