Bothy Culture a result of his experiences of the early 1990s Glaswegian rave and house scenes and his experimentation with numerous types of world music. It was recorded solely by Bennett within his home studio. Bennett explained "Bothy Culture" celebrates not only his own country's Gaelic culture and music, but also the music of Islam, for which he held a long-lasting fascination due to its vocals, modes and instrumentation being "similar in emotion" to Gaelic music styles, and the music of Scandinavia, which he found to have the same heavy-beat rowdiness and "solitary sweetness" of the ceilidh music he played in his
Bothy Culture blend that ranks with the best of the progressives like Deep Forest or Wolfstone," and called the album a "consistently entertaining set." Scott Frampton of "CMJ New Music Monthly" felt that ""Bothy Culture"'s filtering of traditional Highland sounds through urban modernity [is] more than equal to the sum of its parts." Keith Witham of "The Living Tradition" wrote that Bennett was a rare a musician "who doesn't have to hide behind electronic gadgetry to cover a lack of technical proficiency. As a classically trained musician he really is a master of his chosen instruments." Colin Irwin of "The Independent" reflected