 With the album's heavy usage of sampling, "Trouser Press" called the album a sound collage and noted the influence of the band's affection for "Blade Runner"s "sci-fi nihilism" and the innovative comic books of Alan Moore.Joe Boehm of the "LA Times" agreed the album was an "assaultive" sound collage, writing that the eclectic album is a "funny smorgasboard in which a seemingly endless array of pop styles and media messages are sampled, tasted and either spat out or savoured (Rick Astley, nuclear warfare, fast food and alcoholism fail to meet the taste test; science-fiction fantasy and pop styles that are noisy, emphatic, and identified with troublemakers win the blue ribbon).