of the Justhipper (The Complete Sire & Blanco Y Negro Recordings 1986 – 1988) compilation, with "Chain Mail", "Uprising", "Hup-Springs", and "Just Hipper" as bonus tracks. "So Many Ways" and "Johnny Yen" were included on the band's fourth compilation album Fresh as a Daisy – The Singles (2007). The music video for "So Many Ways" was included on the career-spanning box set The Gathering Sound (2012). Reception and legacy Stutter was met with generally positive reviews from music critics. NME Dave Haslam wrote that it was a "cleanly delivered debut LP, gleaming with creativity and confidence". He noted "such a tremendous livewire energy in the music that once again I'm left to rationalise a love with is instinctive, no less". Duncan Wright of Smash Hits said every track was a "polished nugget of fantasy and imagination full of mind-boggling details". Melody Maker writer Jim Shelley felt the album was "a safe, sensible James record". He complimented Kaye's "tidy production" for giving clarity to Booth's "eccentric existentialism". Music critic Robert Christgau saw the album as a "place pleasant, unkempt, and all their own, but not private enough to suit them--hence their wry, well-meaning, angst-ridden, and ultimately impenetrable lyrics". In a review for Record Mirror, Eleanor Levy said that the album "shows just how difficult it is to transfer [the] spontaneity [of their earlier work] to vinyl". She added that it was a "mixed bag indeed. It's not the album it should have been — but it's close." AllMusic reviewer Dean Carlson called it "[t]hin, spiky, jagged folk music", and commented on the performances by the band: "Booth is a mere bystander to his wild vocals while the rest of the band watch ... Whelan have an absolute fit on — what sounds like — four drum kits at once. This is shoddy, shameless chaos. Nothing more than a terribly produced mess of tragic rock-star baiting and deliberate discordance. An amazing debut." Chris Roberts of Sounds considered it "such a slight disappointment." He added that it was "an interesting but club-footed student exercise". Q reviewer Phil Sutcliffe said there was "a sense of echoey space around busy little instruments," with the production emphasises detail only to reveal ... Gott and ... Glennie in pedestrian form". The Guardian listed Stutter as one of the "1001 Albums to Hear Before You Die", praising the record thus: "Before Madchester, and before the Horlicks rock of