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Keeping their incisive guitars, they turn every track into full-frontal assaults led by robotic sequenced basses and drums as well as Jim's depraved howls. Starting slowly with "Here Comes Alice", they then follow with a series of corrosive hymns including the hits "Head On" — later covered by the Pixies — & "Blues from a Gun" as well as 'Between Planets", "UV Ray", "Her Way of Praying" and the nasty "Gimme Hell", which anticipates their next album, Honey's Dead. As usual, everything ends on an acoustic note, here with "Drop", which is reminiscent of their previous entry, Darklands. Contrary to lots of rock and electronic albums, even though it's been 17 years since the release of Automatic, it sounds surprisingly fresh, mostly because its sound is pretty unique. Do I still enjoy this CD as much as when I bought it? You bet, and that doesn't happen with lots of albums. This new dual disc edition includes two mixes of the album, in stereo & 5.1, the lyrics as well as the videos for "Head On", "Blues from a Gun" and "Her Way of Praying". These videos showcase the usual, the Reid brothers playing in a room, while the camera spins all over the place, but I kind of liked "Her way of praying", probably because it features a chick in a leather jacket with a movie camera in front of a porn theater.
 
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