The album is dedicated to the memory Michael F. Cergizan, who was a member of bassist Doug McCombs', and John Herndon's (both current members of Tortoise) band ``Simple.'' in 1988. The song ``Cornpone Brunch'' begins with a sample of the ``Wonderful Radio Jingle'' at the beginning of The Who Sell Out. In his review for Allmusic, Glenn Swan states ``Here, multi-instrumentalists John McEntire, Dan Bitney, John Herdon, Douglas McCombs, and Bundy K. Brown share equal responsibility and trust in each other, pouring out a thick stew of meditative grooves, light production experiments, and rusty guitar-string ambience -- the likes of which have rarely sounded so approachable, but this is not to say the album is a sellout leap into commercialism.
Glenn Swan
John McEntire