Trouser Press wrote that "it was clear that the band’s professed ideals were no longer jibing with their attempts to crack the (American) market ... Protest lyrics swathed in slick, upwardly mobile production were pretty hard to take seriously."
According to Trouser Press, the band's proclaimed ideals seemed incompatible with their attempts to succeed in the American music scene. They found that protest songs, produced with a slick and affluent sound, lacked authenticity.