title song. The album was dedicated to the memory of Kathryn Beattie. Upon release it became the band's second longest studio album behind only Faerie Stories, which is just under 11 minutes longer, although it has since been overtaken by both Dust and Blackhouse, the band's most recent albums. The album cover features a close up of a cow whilst its back cover features a digitally altered, colour negative photograph of a bridge crossing a main road. The album is one of two albums by the band to not give descriptions to any of the tracks in the booklet, following their debut album Mellowosity. Nonetheless, the landscape imagery in the booklet is reminiscent of the booklets for Welcome to Dun Vegas and What Men Deserve to Lose. The album was well received by critics. Alex Monaghan of The Living Tradition said that "the whole Croftwork thing is an enjoyable diversion from musical convention, full of surprises but still loosely tied to its pipe and fiddle heritage." Simon Jones of fRoots said that "Croftwork is intelligence and daring wrapped in an Aladdin's Cave of possibilities. No bull. If Shooglenifty are Scots fusion pushing into wider world styles, then Peatbog Faeries are happy to be Scots pushing their own style into the wide world." Jones' review concluded "Your home will be the poorer for not owning this joyful, playful, energetic wonder." J. C. Hartley of Soundcheck Music Review compared it to Faerie Stories, saying: "Faerie Stories is more traditional, that is a track starts as a wee jig or a reel or a pibroch then takes off into new glens; Croftwork takes that expectation but funks it up big time almost right away; think slap bass and bagpipes." David Kidman was also very favourable, noting "On first playthrough I thought a couple of the tracks were a mite relentless, at least on initial acquaintance, and with the latter half of the album the Faeries certainly seem to get more into their experimental stride, but second playthrough and a neat cranking-up of the volume enabled me to appreciate the serious dance grooves and the inventive majesty of the complex sound-picture so much better. Brilliant - so get right in there and lie back to dance!" He also noted "the joy here is that the Faeries still retain an element of surprise and innovation in their treatments of the traditional-sounding dance tunes created by