Stephen Thomas Erlewine's review: "the band both flourishes and flounders, creating some of their greatest music, as well as some of their worst." 4 out of 5 stars.

Kurt Loder's review: "seems to drone on and on, an endless flurry of chinkety guitar scratchings, state-of-the-art sound processing and the most mundane sort of lyrical imagery (barbed wire is a big concept)." 3 out of 5 stars.