[2] The show was part of a New Music Seminar showcase and was observed by Jon Pareles of The New York Times, who remarked that the band "had hard-core fans diving from the stage as other audience members hummed along with guitar lines [...] All's songs move at a furious pace but can stop on a dime.

[2] The album's liner notes explain that, after years of dealing with filthy restrooms at clubs and even resorting to urinating and defecating in cups in their tour van, the band was thrilled to come across the Trailblazer, a cheap, collapsible camping toilet with aluminum alloy legs, a reinforced plastic seat, and disposable bags for collection of the waste.

[2] However, one day outside a club in Norwalk, Connecticut, the Trailblazer collapsed and broke beneath the weight of the band's 222-pound roadie Mike "The Pike" Moen (Neutralboy).

The new tracks show no loss of energy either [...] You won’t find anything great lyrically here, but for sheer good-time rock 'n' roll it'd be hard to match 'Fool' or 'She's My Ex', and the ridiculously manic, yet catchy, instrumental 'Gnutheme' just has to be played repeatedly.

Billy Stevenson's hammering drum shots are still lethal weapons, while Stephen Egerton also serves up some marvelously warped Black Flag-ish guitar parts.

Vocalist Scott Reynolds' work is rawer here than on All's more polished yet still febrile studio records, but the explosive tenderness of numbers like 'Fool', 'Skin Deep', and 'She’s My Ex' combines the songwriting assets of the Buzzcocks and early Black Flag.

[6] A review in Billboard called the album "a tightly wound exposition of their hearty, cleverly wrought post-adolescent rockers, played with bash-out energy and knowingly sung by Scott Reynolds.".