[4] PopMatters' Matthew Fiander writes that it's "hard to see why [Cape and Sly have] decided to come back to this well, since both seem to be looking forward and producing solid solo records", but regardless "they do take some interesting turns with older material."

Meanwhile, Sly "posits himself as the pint-fueled pub troubadour", with a "hard-struck" acoustic guitar which "clatters through NUFAN classic "Soulmate", a "ringing" guitar played against accordion, piano, and brushed percussion on "Chasing Rainbows", and album original "Liver Let Die" which is "a great last-call tune, complete with a gang of friends screaming 'One more song!'

But you're really in for a treat after the tempo change, when it gets downright bluegrass, giving a whole new life to the song, perhaps signifying Joey coming to terms with his friend's death seven years later"; "I Must Be Hateful" which involves "beautiful fingerpicking and light padding keys, gelling well with Joey's voice"; "Know It All" which "sounds odd in particular coming from a 40-something instead of a 20-something" but is "still a fantastic melody and works well here outside of perhaps the lyrics"; and "Broken Record", an original song to this album "with simply guitar and Joey's voice" which is "very intimate and effective, only building to more aggressive strumming."

While Greg prefers Cape's songwriting, he says that Sly's arrangements do "a more thoughtful job of fleshing out his half."

His half of the album includes "Black Box", by which Greg was "won over by the chorus melody, and the cello, piano, guitar and accordion work[ing] together tastefully without being busy"; "Soulmate", which Sly keeps "peppy, thank goodness, preserving the bounce with the acoustic providing the backbeat and shaker giving the downbeat" and which includes a bass that "even has a punk tone, as chunky piano chords keep a spring in the song's step"; "Chasing Rainbows" "with its Johnny Cash train-chugging drums, more accordion, and a nice acoustic slide solo"; "Pre-Medicated Murder" which "doesn't do much for me as a song, but the arrangement is interesting with more accordion and organ chording"; and "Liver Let Die", "a drunken pub-singalong that works nicely to close out the album."