Broadcast and The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age pasture of incidental tones and half-ripped photographs". "BBC Music Review" reviewed the album favorably, stating, ""Witch Cults of the Radio Age" is laced with enough wonder and intrigue to keep you coming back. It doesn't make perfect sense, but the sense of mystery is a key in itself". "Drowned in Sound" called the album "chaotic, overstimulating, like opening a dusty wardrobe and having an entire childhood tumble down on your head". "Pitchfork" critiqued the album as "predictable" and said that the collaboration between Broadcast and the Focus Group was like "trying to cast their spells at the same time: Some
If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me single was "If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me", but on the album and subsequent releases, the title is shown as "... Had ...". "If I Said You Had a Beautiful Body ..." derived its double entendre title from a Groucho Marx line. Songwriter David Bellamy told country music journalist Tom Roland that he regularly watched Marx's program, "You Bet Your Life", where Marx sometimes used the quote while interviewing an attractive female contestant, then shake his cigar and raise his eyebrows to elicit a reaction. The comment stuck in Bellamy's head as