Stewart Mason, AllMusic: "CSI: Ambleside [...] is not quite up to those standards [namely, of Achtung Bono], but it's yet another solid outing".[1]
Dom Passantino, Drowned in Sound: "CSI: Ambleside is one of the peaks in an already unimpeachable back catalogue because it sticks to what makes HMHB such a great band". [...] This isn't the greatest album of HMHB's career, but it's certainly the album that best illustrates what makes them great".[3]
in 2012, Tim Jonze singled out "National Shite Day" for special praise, calling it an "extended moan about the miseries of British life" which is "hilarious and depressingly true. Because sometimes the sum total of global suffering seems like nothing compared to the pain of being shoved off the pavement by an idiot.".[5]
'Roids are anabolic steroids, drugs misused for bodybuilding purposes, one of whose side effects can be "roid rage".
Petty Sessions are a former type of magistrates' court in England. The tune is the "Hokey cokey", a folk dance dating back to at least 1826 and revived as a music hall novelty song and dance in the 1940s.
The dismal TVM mentioned in National Shite Day (a "tug-of-love-custody-battle" in which Stockard Channing "held sway"), was most likely Jack (2004).