The album was recorded in four days in the Lake District, England, the band's first album to be recorded in their homeland in 16 years.[13] Tom Greenhalgh and Jon Langford were the only original Mekons to play on the album.[14]
Critical reception
PopMatters wrote that the band "turn the volume down, break out the wooden instruments and craft haunting, bone-clinking songs about mortality."[12]Spin wrote that the Mekons are "at their red-eyed best here, skirting the edges of chaos on ragged-but-right tunes like the harmonica-fueled tall tale 'The Old Fox' and the fractured reggae shuffle 'Cockermouth.'”[15]Exclaim! called Natural "a stirring folk punk record that recalls the organic eclecticism of the Clash's Sandinista!"[14]
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