Virtually a Dan Treacy solo record, I Was a Mod Before You Was a Mod strips away all remaining vestiges of the buoyancy long associated with the Television Personalities, leaving behind a harrowing portrait of alienation, desperation and self-loathing; "A Stranger to Myself," "Haunted," "Evan Doesn't Ring Me Anymore," "A Long Time Gone" and "I Can See My Whole World Crashing Down" are frighteningly bleak and painfully affecting. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide