 He finally wrote that the album sounded as if the band was "striving to be taken more seriously", which they did in "simply stringing together three ponderous, already-overlong songs and calling the impenetrable result a 16-minute stand-alone epic ("The Lightning Strike")".He felt the band was not talented enough to give justice to more "artful ambitions" like "The Lightning Strike".He graded the album 4.9 out of 10.