Critical reception
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Will Hermes of Entertainment Weekly gave the album a grade of "A−," calling it "a dense weave of scissored rhythms and slithering tape loops that reads like a soundtrack to some great lost surrealist film."[2] John Bush of AllMusic gave the album 4.5 stars out of 5, saying, "The beats and effects Matt Elliott concocted aren't incredibly original (there's the sewing-machine Brazilian bossa shuffle and the downbeat from Boogie Down Productions' "Bridge Is Over," along with various effects including howling dogs, dark crackly strings and metallic), but the slice-and-dice production, along with creative processing, transforms them into revelatory darkside symphonies."[1]
NME named it the 36th best album of 1998.[5]
Track listing
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Title |
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1. | "A Galaxy of Scars" | 6:55 |
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2. | "For All the Brothers and Sisters" | 4:14 |
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3. | "There's a Fight at the End of the Tunnel" | 4:39 |
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4. | "An Even Harder Shade of Dark" | 8:35 |
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5. | "Lions Writing the Bible" | 1:59 |
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6. | "No Dove No Covenant" | 4:55 |
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7. | "I'm Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired" | 4:39 |
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8. | "That Would Be Exhibiting the Same Weak Traits" | 6:07 |
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9. | "In Bristol with a Pistol" | 3:03 |
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Total length: | 45:16 |
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