Critical reception
'' The Washington Post'' thought that "singer-guitarist Charles Gansa, bassist-singer Pumpkin Wentzel and drummer Danny Tunick don't demolish traditional song form, but they do like to beat it up a bit." '' Philadelphia City Paper'' called the album "a charming swirl of their cheeky, off-key melodicisms and experimental tweeks and wonks ... Even bassist Pumpkin Wentzel's conceptually ill-conceived cover of John Lennon's 'Jealous Guy' works with a little chutzpah." '' NME'' concluded that the album "chews on exactly the same pop bubblegum as their previous releases with a nerdy hook here, a quirky instrument there (castanets, Moog, Spanish guitars, etc) but, unlike 1996’s ''The Hunt'', it chooses to hide its considerable light under a bushel of obscurity." AllMusic wrote that "the album is a frequently brilliant combination of acoustic guitars, assorted tone waves and other varied sounds, drawing them together into minimal but highly dynamic and well-constructed pieces in a beautifully rustic, desolate ballad style."Track listing
# "Spectral Worship" # "Chereza" # "Love the Lamp" # "Wounded Birds and Vampires own the Edge" # "Anaphelact" # "Coozwax" # "Jealous Girl" (Lennon) # "Time Rarely Stand Still" nowiki/>sic">sic.html" ;"title="nowiki/>sic">nowiki/>sic# "Anything" # "Difficulty in Openness" # "Someone Else" # "Spectral Workshop" # "Welcome"Instrumentation and Personnel
*Charles Gansa (guitar, Singing, vocals) *Pumpkin Wentzel (Bass guitar, bass, vocals) *Danny Tunick (Drum kit, drums, marimba) *Cindy Greene (whistling) *Nicky Furnace (backing vocals, handclaps) *So Yong Kim (tongue claps) *Michael Rohatyn (vocals)References
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