Defending accusations that the album was disjointed, McLennan said, "It's an album where we talked right from the start of "Loaded" or a "White Album", where there would be different songs on the record, and I stand by that. I deny the allegations of scrappiness." In an interview in 2016 Forster takes a different view, stating "Grant was always perceived as the pop kid in the band, but he didn’t pick the pop songs. At times I would try and sway him on material, because he had a lot more than me: I would have four or five songs for each album and he would have 15 or 20. But he chose avant-garde weirdness over pop."