"[3] Burrows and Byworth left the band in 1995, and the Godfathers recorded one more album for Intercord with a new lineup, 1995's Afterlife.

[10] Peter Coyne has placed it among his favourite Godfathers albums,[11] calling it "an overlooked gem that has many, many great songs on it.

"[10][12] In a retrospective review, Record Collector's Terry Staunton wrote, "there's a sense of a band at least partially trying to reinvent themselves by stretching their canvas.

"World on Fire" dabbles in the psych-dance shuffle of Madchester, "Free Yourself" rips a page out of the Iggy Pop school of punk, and "That's the Way I Feel" is almost a throwback to 60s garage rock."

Despite a solid production, Clarkson felt that the album lacked the "crispness" of the band's earlier work.