to sell off all of the copies of the "Chesterfield" twelve-inch vinyl, in addition to the time it took to create the artwork. The cassette and LP releases of Bivouac have an album cover featuring a drawing of a topless woman with a rabbit mask. The cover of the CD release is a portion of the image showing the band name and album title; the full drawing is revealed when the insert is unfolded. The image was done by artist Brendan Murdock. The album marked the last appearance of the band's 4F logo, which had first appeared on their debut seven-inch vinyl release. It came out around the time independent punk music was being glossed over in favor of the burgeoning grunge scene. To coincide with the album's 20th anniversary, it and "Chesterfield King" were re-pressed on vinyl in 2012 through Pfahler's label Blackball Records. The CD version included "Peel It the Fuck Down" and a cassette rough version of "Ache" as bonus tracks; the former lifted from the band's compilation album Etc. (2002), while a different version of the latter appeared on their following studio album, 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1994). According to the accompanying press release, both releases were remastered by John Golden and the "increased sampling rate boosts some of the Low-frequency effects and mid-range". Pfahler explained that he wanted a more accurate sonic portrayal of what they heard in the studio. As they were working from DATs to a digital medium, the "sampling rate now is twice what it was in 1992". Blackball Records has since re-pressed it on vinyl in 2015 and 2017. Reception Several reviewers praised the album's varied sound. Givony referred to it as the their "most stylistically varied and leftfield" release, full of "dense layering and experimentation of dramatic" instrumentals and vocal samples. In a review for Record Collector, Pearlman explained that the album's identity revolved around its "varied and experimental take on punk's aesthetic". Fitzgerald said that what it "lacks in production quality, it compensates for in stuttering tempo changes and fills", coming across as a "heart-wrenching example of perfect musical clarity". Adam Turner-Heffer of God Is in the TV felt that it "proved the band’s ambition beyond being just a punk rock band [...] push[ing] the already rapidly expanding boundaries they had presented previously". Rock Hard writer Buffo Schnadelbach said the band eschewed the thrash metal and funk-inspired sound of