[12] The album was recorded in four days in the Lake District, England, the band's first album to be recorded in their homeland in 16 years.

[13] Tom Greenhalgh and Jon Langford were the only original Mekons to play on the album.

[14] PopMatters wrote that the band "turn the volume down, break out the wooden instruments and craft haunting, bone-clinking songs about mortality.

"[12] Spin wrote that the Mekons are "at their red-eyed best here, skirting the edges of chaos on ragged-but-right tunes like the harmonica-fueled tall tale 'The Old Fox' and the fractured reggae shuffle 'Cockermouth.

called Natural "a stirring folk punk record that recalls the organic eclecticism of the Clash's Sandinista!