"[1] DownBeat reviewer John Corbett described the album as "deeply engaging," calling Peacock "equally alert and penetrating, paradoxically somehow both direct and oblique," and depicting Crispell's impressionistic playing as "radiance and darkness locking horns.

"[5] Nate Chinen, in an article for The New York Times, called the album "a conversational study with an implied commitment to parity," and stated: "The results are often starkly beautiful, with the sort of contemplative glow that only maturity seems to provide.

"[11] Will Layman, writing for PopMatters, referred to the album as "another gem, a delicate but insistently thorny recording that resists being limited by expectations or options," and stated: "I recommend the kind of active listening that makes a release like this—a slice of sparkling jazz magic—come alive.

"[7] In an article for London Jazz News, Geoff Winston called the recording "an album which is imbued with a sense of calm beauty, with a puckish overlay of sprightly movement and invention," and stated that it "just invites return visits.

"[12] Writing for The Irish Times, Cormac Larkin commented: "On this delicate, beautifully poised set, it is a mark of both players' openness and integrity that they don't cleave to any particular style but follow wherever the music takes them – from near-abstract improvisations to lyrical blues- and folk-tinged compositions.