Boom! Boom! Boom!
The album was produced by Deal, who also cowrote or wrote all of the album's songs. It was recorded over a period of two and half weeks in February 1997. "Stereo Review" wrote that "the sex-rocking 'Shag, the punk-snarling 'Get the Writing Off My Back', and the boom-boom-booming 'Brillo Hunt' are as catchy as anything on "Last Splash" but more fully arranged." "Rolling Stone" called "Boom! Boom! Boom!" "a fun and arty fuck-about of a solo album," writing that "there's a lot of sonic debris here, too: bratty Mouseketeer-like cheers, hokey ditties such as 'Stripper' and arbitrary instrumentation like military snare drums and penny whistles." "The Columbus Dispatch" concluded: "While several cuts spill over with resonating guitar pop, many ride the fence between full-on heavy metal and numbing alt-rock. While the latter is inoffensive, its impact is ephemeral at best. "
"The Guardian" deemed the album "splenetic punky numbers one minute, lovelorn crooning the next," writing that it "veers between the actually-quite-good and arrant nonsense." The "Albuquerque Journal" determined that "though most of the 15 songs (like the loosely structured 'Stripper', a sort of poke at the dancing profession, and the drumroll march of 'Total War') are experimental to be sure, there are still a couple of radio-ready pop gems, like the album opener, 'Shag', and 'Confidence Girl'." The "Boston Herald" remarked that "the odd 'When He Calls Me Kitten' transfixes with a bizarre Ann-Margret-visits-the-Mississippi-Delta-blues vibe." "The Plain Dealer" thought that "while ["Sugar Altar"'s] lyrics seemed to evade serious issues, [Deal]'s now developing an oblique, personal language to explore them. " All tracks composed by Kelley Deal; except where indicated
#"Shag" (Marty Nedich) – 2:26 
#"Future Boy" – 2:11 
#"Baby I'm King" – 3:27
#"When He Calls Me Kitten" – 3:23
#"Brillo Hunt" – 3:34
#"Box" – 2:24
#"Stripper" – 2:02
#"Where Did The Home Team Go" – 3:58
#"Confidence Girl" (Todd Mund, Marty Nedich) – 2:39
#"Total War" (Nick Hook) – 1:53
#"Scary" – 3:11
#"My Boyfriend Died" – 2:42
#"[Drum Solo]" – 0:28
#"Skylark" (Brent Sigmeth) – 4:06
#"Get the Writing off My Back" – 2:44
Critical reception
Boom! Boom!