He has also been called "vain, erratic and irredeemably pigheaded". Steven Hyden of "The A.V. Club" called the album "narcissistic", "corny" and "irredeemably stupid". At the beginning of the 20th century, the medieval structure was irredeemably corrupted. Both Connolly and White emphasize that this dimension is both "fundamental and irredeemably contestable". Daniel Levin Becker wrote in "Dusted" that, despite its unconventionality, the album is "irredeemably bad". The critic for "The Saturday Review" pronounced it "irredeemably bad". He was irredeemably in debt because of his personal financing of the war.