When it was released in 1999, Capitol records gave it high distribution and the single It's Saturday got heavy air wave play (tv & radio).

Telling more fairytale stories on this album, the band follows a fun concept of mixing sci-fi with crazy and wacky ideas.  Wave motion gun being one of those songs speaks of the crazy antics which occur backstage at concerts and then turns into a song that simingly talks about brain washing, drug abuse and memory loss.

"And so you reach down to that secret panel and there's a whole raft of little buttons and you, you pick one and hope it takes you to mars. Soon there'll be no pain again you'll feel like yourself again you shoot all your heroine in one big blast from your wave motion gun."

Though MP has weird tracks like this and Secret Squirrel (a song that offers comic relief to the listeners) the band, as usual, remains very patriotic to their home country:  The United States of America.  This is seen in the appropriately titled song America. They demonstrate a more loving side which many high school boys can relate to in the song All the lights went out.

Though the album was un-noticed by many fans of the first, it did come out when downloading music was at it's peak, but this is no excuse.  The album sold poorly because everyone expected more of what was on the first album and it was as though they did not want to allow change to the band.  The band added crazy things into their rock on Shapeshifter like yodling in between choruses and verses and because of this many fans and reviewers said the band had become a joke and was making themselves look stupid, when really they had just created one of the most catchy pieces of rock the scene had seen in years!  

                                                                                                           -Kiel Burwell