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Dennis Bovell produced and Mike Dunne engineered. All original tracks are credited to Albertine, Pollitt, Ari Up and Palmolive. Ari Up sang, Albertine played guitar, Pollitt bass and Budgie drums, with Bovell on sound effects and Neneh Cherry uncredited on backing vocals. Ari Up told Spin in 2010 the cover was one of the things that kept them famous and turned them into legends. Reissues came in 1990, 2000, 2004 and 2009, the last a 30th anniversary edition with Peel recordings and a dub version.

AllMusic gave 4.5 stars, Pitchfork 9.3 and Christgau a B-plus, and Trouser Press called it spare and rudimentary but bursting with novel ideas. The Observer's 2004 list put it 58th among the 100 greatest British albums, and Rolling Stone's 2020 list ranked it 260th.