[4] The cover's stark red-white-and-black painting depicts a prisoner bending cell bars to break free,[5] The album's insert bore the phrase, The record's poster announces "hometaping is killing record companies...and it's about time.

"[6] this time adapted from Roode Hulp (“Red Help”) poster drawing attention to political prisoners needing aid.

The opening track "Bouquet of Barbed Wire", picked as a highlight from the album, was described as "build[ing] slowly from a hypnotic guitar riff, adding instruments one at a time before exploding into an intense post-punk roar".

was picked as another "musical and sociological high point" while the closing track "Island Race" "ends with an industrial clanging that predates the early records by Test Department and Einsturzende Neubauten.

"[1] An unattributed review on The Ex's official website describes the album as the "[m]usic of malcontents, rebellion and impotent rage about everything that is wrong in this world [...] But they're quite aware themselves, too, that reality is not always black and white [...] What they lack in pure originality, gets compensated by their passion and devotion.