Ponderously clever pop simplicity recalls The Raincoats and The Shaggs in it's innovationand charm. Half new songs, half songs previously released (from Memo EP and compilation appearances - everything but the stuff released on Harriet). "In Receptionists songs, history students imagine themselves as WWII soldiers' wives, friends don't write back in a timely manner and awkward and/or tender social and romantic moments are evoked (usually in the past tense)" - Caught in Flux