[4] Dean McFarlane of Allmusic called the album "a fantastic introduction to their varied material, which is high-energy post-punk in a similar vein to Fugazi, Crass, and Shellac."

in that they share the influence of African and Jamaican musics – but the most striking reference is European traditional and folk, given a post-punk electric shock on this engaging album.

Highly political in their lyrical content, the range here covers angular bass and drum rhythms while guitars skate about colliding in squalls of noise like Sonic Youth that surpass the hardest post-punk rockers such as Jesus Lizard or June of 44 in energy.

"[1] Trouser Press reviewed the album positively, calling Buhrs "practically a vocal twin for Captain Beefheart [...] he's got the range for it, and provides a useful counterpart to Sok's one-note bellow (they duet on a few tracks)."

""[4] Andrea Moed of CMJ New Music Monthly also compared Buhrs to Captain Beefheart and praised the band's "rhythmically intense arrangements.