How to Operate with a Blown Mind explained

How to Operate with a Blown Mind
Type:	studio
Artist:	Lo Fidelity Allstars
Cover:	How To Operate With A Blown Mind album cover.JPG
Studio:	The Brain Farm; Chiswick Reach
Label:	Skint
Producer:	Lo Fidelity Allstars
Next Title:	On the Floor at the Boutique
Next Year:	2000

How to Operate with a Blown Mind is the debut studio album by Lo Fidelity Allstars, released on Skint Records in 1998.

Critical reception

The Hartford Courant wrote that "there's something a little different about the Allstar approach, alternating the boomy, hooky dance tracks with spacy, equally melodic washes of instrumentals, over which are long, Beat poet-like rants."^[1] NME named How to Operate with a Blown Mind the 21st best album of 1998.^[2]

In a rundown of "intelligent big beat", Simon Reynolds called the album an "oxymoronic masterpiece of 'darkside big beat'."^[3]

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

• The Wrekked Train – vocals
• The Albino Priest – turntables, sampler
• A One Man Crowd Called Gentile – bass guitar
• The Slammer – drums
• Sheriff John Stone – keyboards
• The Many Tentacles – keyboards, engineering
• Sean "The Bison" Phillips – guitar (on "I Used to Fall in Love")
• Lisa Millett – vocals (on "Vision Incision")
• Ben Mitchell – keyboards (on "Vision Incision")

Charts

Chart	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)^[4]	15
US Billboard 200^[5]	115
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)^[6]	1

Notes and References

1. News: Catlin . Roger . How to Operate with a Blown Mind Lo Fidelity Allstars . Hartford Courant . 28 Jan 1999 . Calendar . 7.
2. Web site: Albums And Tracks Of The Year: 1998. NME. 10 October 2016. 2 January 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20170610134521/http://www.nme.com/bestalbumsandtracksoftheyear/1998-2-1045362. 10 June 2017.
3. Web site: FAVES / UNFAVES. Simonreynoldsfavesunfaves.blogspot.co.uk. 19 November 2017.
4. Web site: Lo Fidelity Allstars. Official Charts Company. 2 January 2017.
5. Web site: Lo Fidelity Allstars - Billboard 200. Billboard. 2 January 2017.
6. Web site: Lo Fidelity Allstars - Heatseekers Albums. Billboard. 2 January 2017.