The foundation of this record is blues and psychedelic rock. However, songs like “Spoonful” featured stylistic choices that would later influence the heavy metal sound. Specifically, “Spoonful” ...

Rolling Stone's Rob Sheffield dubbed it "the Cure's best since Disintegration," calling it a "vividly propulsive space-rock goth elegy, eight songs in fifty minutes, kicking with a full-blooded ...