their YouTube channel to mark the 26th anniversary of the release of the album. Critical reception Becoming X got mostly positive reviews from contemporary critics, who often compared Sneaker Pimps to trip hop artists like Portishead and Tricky. In a positive interview for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine defined the album "one of the most engaging byproducts of post-Portishead trip-hop", albeit being more guitar-driven than their predecessors. Jeremy Helligar wrote "Sneaker Pimps manage to be ominously spooky on Becoming X without indulging in Tricky’s gothic pretension and hypnotic without lapsing into Portishead’s one-note gloom" in his positive review for Entertainment Weekly. In a 3 star out of 5 review for Rolling Stone, Ken Micallef wrote that whilst not deviating from the female-fronted trip hop band formula, the band manages to "make pop as tension-filled as an Edgar Allan Poe novel". Calvin Bush from Muzik gave the album 3 stars out of 5 and defined it "spiky indie pop in a Garbage-meets-Portishead fashion", noting the singles "Tesko Suicide" and "6 Underground" came across like "an indie kid version of Morcheeba with slashier guitars". Ryan Schreiber gave the album a 6.3 score on Pitchfork, likening Sneaker Pimps to "an electrified version of Sade" and praising the vocals, the beats and the guitars, albeit criticizing the songs for seemingly losing "a lot of their appeal once you're familiar with them". In a more critical review for NME, Dele Fadele commended the band's original sound for blending electronic, orchestral and rock elements but ultimately described the result as boring. Track listing "6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Edit)" − 3:48 (US bonus track) "No More" – 4:15 (Japan bonus track) "Clean" – 5:17 (Japan bonus track) "Johnny" 4:14 (Japan bonus track) "Precious" 4:18 (Japan bonus track) "Walk the Rain" – 4:58 (Japan bonus track) Samples "6 Underground" sampled John Barry's track "Golden Girl" from the film Goldfinger (1964) "Becoming X" sampled Sandy Denny's track "Next Time Around" (1971) "Spin Spin Sugar" sampled Luciano Berio's "Visage" (1961) "Post-Modern Sleaze" sampled the ritual music from the final scenes of the film The Wicker Man (1973) "Waterbaby" sampled David Sylvian's track "Let the Happiness In" (1987), "Guru Sri Chinmoy Aphorism" by Carlos Santana and Alice Coltrane (1974) and Jimmy Fontana's track "Il Mondo" (1965) "How Do" sampled the Rachel Verney vocal audio from the soundtrack in the 1973 British horror film The Wicker Man Live versions of "Spin Spin Sugar"