 This approach was referenced in the sometimes self-contradictory reviews for “Can’t Go Back,” which reflected a growing critical ambivalence towards Primal Scream.The "NME" equivocated, “With a dental-drill hook and Bobby muttering about how he ‘Stuck a needle in my arm…stuck it in my baby’s heart,’ ‘Can’t Go Back’ rockets straight from the "XTRMNTR" school of propulsive, night-streaked electro-rock’n’roll.In anyone else’s hands it’d sound try-hard, but it’s impossible to call them a cliché when they invented so many.”