[4] The band added a second guitar player, James Baluyut, prior to the Secret Swingers recordings sessions.

[7] The Nashville Banner called the album "derivative of Sonic Youth," but wrote that "Versus still manages to bring its fair share of ideas to the table.

"[11] The Village Voice deemed it "as 'original' as guitar-bass-drums-vocals indie-rock music gets," declaring that "with equal boy and girl intensity, and ecstatic, near-schizophrenic tempo/volume changes, Versus have forged that rare commodity: a 'sound'.

"[6] The Sunday Times praised Fontaine Toups, writing that she "supplies the kind of motorised bass parts New Order's Peter Hook wouldn't have been ashamed of.

"[12] The Day noted Versus' "odd guitar tunings, bittersweet vocal harmonies and paranoid lyrics.