[4] It was one of only three releases credited to "Wir", the others being the "So and Slow It Grows" single, and a limited edition two-song EP entitled Vien.

"Making a track out of Wire samples," singer and guitarist Colin Newman explained, "seemed to me to be an extremely funny thing to do."

The departed Robert Gotobed appears on the track in sampled form, as the snare drum used was taken from one of the band's 1970s albums.

They felt that the album included some "genuine standouts" such as the "beat-heavy industrial dance track "Take It (For Greedy)" ... two dreamy and beat-driven versions of "So and Slow It Grows," the ominous dark wave tones of "A Big Glue Canal," and the surreal factory throb of "Naked, Whooping and Such-Like," which opens with a spoken-word reading.

"[9] Trouser Press felt that the album is "more spirited" than anything since 1988's A Bell Is a Cup,[10] and AllMusic wrote, "the vocals mean considerably less than the musical textures – it's all about the sound, not the song.