"There's a cover of Prince and Rosie Gaines's Nothing Compares 2 U sung in nonsense Cantonese, while Szechuan is a pan pipe-driven piece of sino-grime that recalls Ruff Squad's classic Functions on the Low. With so much theory and style to cut through before you get to the actual music, it's to the album's credit that it often stands up as much more than just a high-brow, Edward Said-inspired thought experiment".