"When they were issued in mono on single, all tracks on The Year the World Burned rightly appear thus and the well-designed Savage-annotated booklet is a joy ... A spin-off implication of this release derives from its arrival on CD. It would be impossible to programme and sequence anything similar on vinyl. A six-or eight-sided album set would be terrifically expensive, unwieldy and lack any flow. Those wedded to the idea of the CD as a dead medium should look here and ponder their position".