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| Released | February 25, 1997 | |||
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| Length | 35:18 | |||
| Label | Alias [3] /Poison City | |||
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| AllMusic |   [4] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |  [5] |
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The A.V. Club called the album "the band’s crowning achievement." [1] CMJ New Music Report called it "a noisy, post-punk bonfire." [2] Vulture wrote that "[Knapsack's] songs were always a little too curiously shaped to break into the mainstream, but you can still hear the crossover potential in the sensitivity of their dynamics." [6]
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