"The set is filled with unreleased songs, early mixes, private press, live tracks, and deep cuts, not to mention a fair number of acts that made little impression at the time. Despite the relative prominence of cover of the Band and a handful of cuts in a similarly mellow country-rock vein, this leans toward the harder, messier side of pub rock, and that's the distinction and appeal of Surrender to the Rhythm: London Pub Rock Scene of the Seventies: It's the graduate course on pub rock".