"Lacking relevance to current trends isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the lack of focus and force on Volume X, the unkillable band's unsatisfying tenth full-length, doesn't help their cause. One of Trans Am's stocks in trade, new-wave pastiche, is represented in a halfhearted fashion this time around. New-wave means a lot of things to a lot of people, but in Trans Am's case, that meaning has always been narrow and rigid: synth-pop of the icy, Kratfwerk-ian extraction".