apart from their 1996 debut album Mellowosity. Gone is much of the dub style percussion and reflective tonality, in favour of more stirring urban styled rhythms. I don't have a problem with technology in traditional music as long as it's done with both character and respect, two attributes these six gentlemen from Skye have in abundance." Whitham also noted that with Faerie Stories, the band "have stamped their place at the forefront of Celtic cool territory" and "full of pulsating rhythms that are often purely the domain of Radio One on any chosen Friday night, this album gives the Celtic youth of today an opportunity to identify with their birthright. With no songs on the CD the band have ample chance to let the music speak for itself." Other reviews noted that the album still has a strong dub influence, such as on songs like "Mr Problematic", and that the most dance-orientated tracks are the first two tracks and "Caberdrone". Further comparisons were drawn with trip hop acts Massive Attack and UNKLE. Faerie Stories would be the band's only album in such an electronic style. The album remains one of Greentrax Recordings' best ever selling albums. Several of the album's tracks remain staples in the band's live performances. Many of the songs had debuted several years before Faerie Stories was released due to the long time taken to release the album. "The Folk Police", whose title has more recently been shortened to "Folk Police" in subsequent appearances, has been played at almost every Peatbog Faeries performance since 1999. typically as the final track in the main set before the encore. One reviewer, upon watching the band perform it live in 2014, noted "the highlight of the gig is of course "Folk Police", with its heavy electronic influence and Morrison’s evocative performance on the bagpipes." A reviewer for The Guardian, seeing it close a live performance of the band later in the year, noted firstly that "this is a party band," and described "The Folk Police" as "yet another slick, high-energy dance workout". Festivals for All noted the track is a great favourite of theirs to which the band's bassist and sometime percussionist Innes Hutton noted that the track as being "one of those that’s developed and developed playing it live. [They have] been playing it a long time…. if there was a night [they] didn’t get an amazing reaction [they