How to Operate with a Blown Mind

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." NME named How to Operate with a Blown Mind the 21st best album of 1998.
In a rundown of "intelligent big beat", Simon Reynolds called the album an "oxymoronic masterpiece of 'darkside big beat'."

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
Lisa Millett – vocals
Ben Mitchell – keyboards