"[3] A reviewer for All About Jazz commented: "'An Acrobat's Heart' is cause for celebration, not only for the re-emergence of Peacock and the reminder of her originality, but also for the consistent and influential statement that she makes, sparingly and powerfully.

"[4] In an article for The New York Times, Giovanni Russonello remarked: "The songs... feel like Tin Pan Alley ballads cut open, made into dark dreams.

"[6] Tom Terrell of JazzTimes wrote: "Less is more than enough for Peacock's exquisitely strange and haunting songs about love..., loneliness..., obsession..., fear and fearlessness... Peacock's smoky alto rarely rises above a whisper, and she phrases silence like Miles.

"[7] A writer for JAZZed magazine stated: "the album is typically spare and strikingly lyrical, yet no more conventionally jazz-like in intent as any of her earlier work.

Still, it wouldn't be much of a surprise to find discerning jazz musicians rediscovering these tunes somewhere down the line.