Leonards Lair: Black Box Recorder - The Facts of Life: Review of the debut album, rating it 3 out of 5.Metacritic: Black Box Recorder - The Facts Of Life: Amalgamation of reviews from different sources.musicOMH.com: Black Box Recorder - The Facts of Life: Michael Hubbard's review: "compared with the last Black Box Recorder album 'England Made Me', this effort is positively commercial."PopMatters: Black Box Recorder - The Facts of Life: Wilson Neate's review: "The Facts of Life makes for compulsively uneasy listening".