“Pop savant John Easdale long ago relocated from New Jersey to California with the same two guitarists he’d known since he was a kid, and there picked up a new rhythm section that’s been with him ever since. So after 35 years, Dramarama remain a true band no matter how often they play out. But synergy isn’t the main reason their first album in 15 years is the finest of an impressively consistent career. Because he kept writing songs, Easdale had a lot of new material to choose from as the band gradually recorded the pieces of an album he conceived as the kind of short story collection that coheres into a whole…”
– Robert Christgau, “Dean of American Rock Critics”