[2] The album was released to positive critical reception with an aggregate score of 80 on Metacritic based on 17 reviews.

[1] The Observer's Kitty Empire awarded the album 3 stars, likening Bradley to Al Green,[11] while critic Steve Horowitz from PopMatters praised Bradley's vocal style, describing him as "the closest living equivalent to [James] Brown" and concluding that "Bradley sings of his aches and pleasures with such conviction that he makes one believe this is possible".

[8] The album also received praise from a number of other musical publications, including American Songwriter,[4] Record Collector[12] and Paste.

[6] The theme song for Big Mouth is Bradley's cover of Black Sabbath's "Changes".

The opening title sequence for the first three seasons of Barry uses the instrumental intro of Bradley's song "Change for the World".