[9] On 2 March 2020, the band released "House Music All Night Long", and announced the album on Steve Lamacq's BBC Radio 6 show.

It was originally scheduled to be released by Rough Trade Records on 1 May 2020,[10] but was pushed back to 4 September due to the COVID-19 pandemic,[11] before eventually being brought forward to 17 July.

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received a score of 86, based on 15 critics, signifying "universal acclaim".

[14] For The Daily Telegraph, Neil McCormick described the album as Cocker's "resounding comeback", writing that it is "the best thing [he] has done since Pulp, and that is very good indeed".

[16] In his review for AllMusic, editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine compared the album favourably to Pulp's early work, such as Separations (1992), describing it as "something of a quiet renaissance for [Cocker], proof that he can still weave a compelling, daring blend of trash and high art".