 Each release contains a live rendition of the title track, a remix, and a music video.Overall, the album garnered mixed to positive reviews, receiving a 70% score on Metacritic, and came in for criticism regarding certain aspects.For instance, a review in "Q Magazine" stated that the album uses "a powerful formula, but one the band perfected with their 2002 album "Oceanic"", and "Delusions of Adequacy's "Joe Davenport felt that ""In the Absence of Truth" finds the band both spinning its wheels and running out of ideas".""