"[9] The Knoxville News Sentinel opined: "Pitted against otherworldly guitars, lulling bass lines and drifting keyboards, Charles slips into the hypnotic cadences with erotic grace.

"[13] The Boston Herald thought that, "after five or six songs, the band's crawling tempos and Charles' doped-up vocals take on a woozy sameness.

"[15] The Dayton Daily News declared that "extreme cool has its place, of course, but just a little more heat would have made this ... a lot more exciting, not to mention easier to get through.

"[12] The Naples Daily News' Steve Bailey concluded that the band "use effects like the tinkling of piano keys or the rich, eerie whine of the sitar to perfectly set the tone for Charles' mournful vocals and lyrics"; he later listed the album as the eighth best of 1996.

[16][17] AllMusic deemed the album "a set of slow, gloomy and occasionally seductive jangle-pop that's often quite reminiscent of Mazzy Star.