"Dress" received mass critical acclaim upon its release and was voted Single of the Week in "Melody Maker" by guest reviewer John Peel, who admired "the way Polly Jean seems crushed by the weight of her own songs and arrangements, as if the air is literally being sucked out of them ... admirable if not always enjoyable.
Ko se je PJ Harvey, sicer še vedno neodločena glede kariere, vpisala na študij kiparstva na Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, je band junija 1991 ustvarjanje premaknil v London.