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 (on "I Used to Fall in Love")
 * Lisa Millett – vocals (on "Vision Incision")
 * Ben Mitchell – keyboards (on "Vision Incision")