One track ("Maybe I Was The Pilot") features a guitar line from a 1950s Ugandan harp player, and another ("Eoleyo") is a cover of a song that the band found on a cassette by Ethiopian singer Mahmoud Ahmed.

asked Popmatters' Arnold Pan, praising the track "Keep On Walking" as a "rallying cry" that "casts the new Ex in a new light, a worthy acknowledgment of their legacy that also promises much more to come.

"[6] Joanne Huffa of NOW praised the contributions of Katherina Bornefeld's drumming: "Perhaps more than any other element, her incorporation of rhythm into the songs' very fabric is key to the Ex's sound.

"[3] Richard Elliot of Tiny Mix Tapes writes: "The variety of musical textures that The Ex layer into each performance make for continued interest and invite repeated listening.

Essentially, DeBoer is the Sammy Hagar of anarcho-punk [...] when collaborating, as it has before, with everyone from Sonic Youth to Tortoise, The Ex has always absorbed the flavor of whatever it’s paired with—and de Boer is mostly flavorless.

[14] An alternate version of "Maybe I Was the Pilot" was released as a single without Roy Paci's trumpet work, backed with the non-album track "Our Leaky Homes".