"The Residents are rarely a band one looks to for an evening's background filler, but the dedication to their mission, however obscure that might at times be, is overwhelming. and through it all they have both charted the way and made room for a host of artists to follow. If, after so long, it takes a conceptual prank like this to produce one album of arresting, upsetting, irritating and intermittently wonderful pieces and another album of adept and thoroughly enjoyable songs designed to be taken at face value, then who can begrudge them that".