The album compiles outtakes from the band's first two full-length releases (Here Come the Lies and Wait Long By the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By) and their first few non-album singles.

we didn't have the time or money or patience to correct anything....all I can remember about these sessions is just being tired and drunk and hoarse and broke and way too loud for a recording studio...it seems like 20 years ago.

[3] It was also released as a limited (500 copies) vinyl edition and includes an extra track, a cover of "Well Well Well" by John Lennon.

The reviewer Claus Wittwer scored the album a 9/10, calling it "much better [...] wilder and more rampant" than the band's previous releases from whose sessions most of these outtakes were culled, calling the vocals "emotionally charged and highly explosive [...] Frontman Gareth Liddiard seems to live what he sings.

"[5] The Aquarian Weekly wrote that the band's "misbegotten third album, [...] offered menacingly provocative fare such as audacious fetus-scraping lampoon, “She Had An Abortion That She Made Me Pay For.”"[6] Everett True described the "deranged" title track as "a Mercy Seat for the noughties"[7] whilst God Is in the TV called it "mercurial" and "majestic".