[3] The album is a decidedly significant departure from her previous work, utilising an experimental framing device in which each song correlates to a single body part.

With this, Spalding stated she hoped to distance herself from the identity of a "musician" and associate herself with an unbound experimentalism that cannot be categorised.

[4] Lucas Phillips of Boston Globe commented "Weird is too often a cover for mediocrity or an epithet meant to describe what is foreign to us.

Weird like seeing the inside of the singer-bassist's eyeballs and an animation that for all the world resembles a uterus dancing to the beat.

[11] Writing in Echoes, Adam Mattera singled out specific tracks for merit: "Touch In Mine" renders everything Solange has been retreading over her last couple of albums somewhat redundant, while in some alternate universe you could even imagine the Chic-in-outer-space groove of "You Have To Dance" being a hit".