Noise for Heroes' Steve Gardner felt, "[it] was a solid starter with a thick, dense guitar sound and lyrics about turn-of-the-century industrialization..."cities of grey and all that sort of thing.
[1] The new line-up of Vanilla Chainsaws issued a five-track extended play, Wine Dark Sea, in mid-1988, which was recorded at Blue Harbour and Rich studios with John Bee producing.
[1] The line-up changed again, with Alexander and Drew (now on bass guitar) joined by Andrew Marks on drums.
[1] In December 1989, while in Germany, they recorded a six-track EP, Thousand (1990), for Glitterhouse, Alexander and Drew were joined by Bill Walsh (of Cosmic Psychos) on drums for the sessions.
[1] Late in 1990 Alexander and Drew returned to Australia, they were rejoined by Lee and Kelly to undertake an Australian tour in April of the following year.