"[11] Roysdon also found the album repetitious, saying that "Songwriter Ric Ocasek has written some fairly good numbers, but they sound alike, with just a few exceptions.

"[11] Daily Herald-Tribune critic Ethlie Ann Vare said that it lacked the "hard rocking edge" from the Cars' first two albums and that it "slops over into muddy techno-pop.

"[13] Pittsburgh Press critic Pete Bishop felt it had "an undue amount of menace and too little melody and snap in the music.

"[14] Saginaw News critic Nancy Kuharevicz called it a "stark, almost anti-musical album" and said that "When Ocasek isn't moaning like a whiny, jilted adolescent, he's repetitiously droning pat phrases which range from trite to abtruse.

"[16] Boston Globe critic Steve Morse called it "a tour de force of high-tech strategy" that "ushers in a potpourri of new sound textures.