Celebrate the Bullet that buzz over Neol Davies' blistering, bluesy and soulful guitar solos and riffs. Other times its almost undefinable as the songs are driven by a seamless melting pot of rock, reggae and new wave via memorable melodies that stick in your head." "Bristol & Miami" concerns the racial riots that had occurred in spring 1980 in Bristol (the 1980 St. Pauls riot) and Miami (the 1980 Miami riots), and is said to slightly predate fellow 2 Tone band the Specials' "Ghost Town", a documentation of UK riots released later on in 1981. The energetic song features "punky ska rhythms", which
Riot in English were release from the album. The lead single "Simon Simon" managed to be successful in dance charts, peaking inside the top forty on the "Billboard" Dance Club Songs chart. However, the following singles "Riot in English" and "Overtime" failed to chart. Joe Viglione from AllMusic gave the album three and a half out of five stars. He praised Bozzio's lyrics saying that "she knows how to pull a chic cliché and envelope it" and also added that Prince gave her "the opportunity to prove she's as charming on record as she is in person and a talent in her own