1994 remaster used the design from a 1991 promotional poster with the typeface (Avenir) from the sleevenotes. Critical reception Upon its release, the album was unanimously praised in the mainstream music press. Writing in Melody Maker, Paul Lester stated that "Each song is crammed with elaborate details and merits a treatise. Very basically, we're talking Europop, my all-time favourite genre. The overall effect is one of swirling magnificence". He concluded that Electronic was "one of the greatest albums ever made". In the NME, David Quantick wrote, "This is a pretty 1990s sort of a record, fresh as a daisy and wearing huge new oxblood Doc Martens". Keith Cameron in Vox said, "Electronic is simply a 100 per cent pure distillation of Marr and Sumner's respective talents. The hit single 'Get the Message' has it in a nutshell: it breaks no new ground; it simply achieves perfection". The album received the maximum five stars in Q from Phil Sutcliffe, who wrote, "its strength is in conflict ... The inexorable pounding of the beatbox versus the fragile sadness of Sumner's voice and the he's/she's leaving stories; the symmetry of the synthesized or sampled sounds versus the sheer blood and bone physicality of Marr's guitar". Electronic also received praise in the United States. In Spin magazine, Ted Friedman regarded the album as "impressive", while Entertainment Weekly called it "irresistibly tuneful". At the end of 1991, NME and Melody Maker ranked it 13 and 15 respectively in their top albums of the year. Promotion "Get the Message" was released in April 1991 as the lead single and performed well in both Britain (number 8 on the Top 40) and the United States (number 1 on Modern Rock Tracks). In July, "Tighten Up" was released as a promo in the US and reached number 6 on the same chart. "Feel Every Beat" was the next international single in September and was a modest hit. Three songs from this era were released as B-sides: "Free Will" (on "Get the Message"), and "Lean to the Inside" and "Second to None" (on "Feel Every Beat"). A number of remixes were also released, by DNA, Winston Jones/Dave Shaw and Danny Rampling/Pete Lorimer. Sumner and Marr gave a slew of interviews in the mainstream British music press, and appeared on Friday at the Dome and MTV's 120 Minutes to support the album. "Get the Message" was also promoted with two