[3] The music that the Lilac Time recorded for & Love for All featured a greater reliance on electric guitars and keyboards than the band's formerly acoustic sound.

[1] Critic Stewart Mason has likened the overall sound of the album to producers Partridge and Leckie's collaboration on the Dukes of Stratosphear records,[1] while Tim DiGravina hears the influence of Woody Guthrie, Nick Drake and the Smiths in some songs.

Initial copies of the LP release came with a free "Greatest Hits" bonus record which featured a selection of songs from the band's previous two albums.

"[12] In a more recent review for the AllMusic website, Stewart Mason gave & Love for All 4+1⁄2 stars out of 5 and called it "the first genuinely excellent album of Stephen Duffy's career".

[1] However, Trouser Press had a more mixed opinion of the album, remarking that the combination of Partridge's art-rock arranging style and Duffy's simple tunes was "an iffy proposition" that "leaves the less dynamic performances sounding flat.

"[10] & Love for All was reissued in an expanded and remastered edition by Fontana in 2006, with the addition of eight bonus tracks, including four previously unreleased BBC Radio 1 recordings first broadcast in 1990.