Granted, Step doesn't have anything as effortlessly flawless as the classic single "Judith" from the band's last album, but it does have a number of songs ("Blue," "The Outsider") that are almost as bombastically beautiful. -- E! Online

Sounds more like the dusky thrum of Disintegration-era Cure than it does any of the members' previous bands. -- Rolling Stone

This is a classic 1970s-style headphones record that is both arty and unusually undisciplined. [Nov 2003, p.108] -- Blender

With greater degrees of deliberate construction than Mers De Noms, Thirteenth Step is more cohesive band effort, less ad hoc side project. -- MOJO

1. The Package
2. Weak And Powerless
3. The Noose
4. Blue
5. Vanishing
6. A Stranger
7. The Outsider
8. Crimes
9. The Nurse Who Loved Me
10. Pet
11. Lullaby
12. Gravity