With no real songs to speak of, 's debut was inundated with an erratic sensibility and a frustrating non-style-over-substance sense of work ethic. Only the occasional success hinted of things to come. The one-two punch of and would go on to stand up well against anything the band later released, the former a mangled, melancholic take on '80s and the latter squealing off in far too many directions to suggest a well-adjusted mindset and using both pre- beat mechanics and structureless Arkestra anti-music to deconstruct the ubiquitous mid-album . [This was later reissued on CD in 2000 with the bonus tracks ] ~ Dean Carlson