Cobalt Blue (album)

[1][2] Brook supported the album with a North American tour, playing some shows with John Cale.

[11] Trouser Press called the album "a grown-up alternative to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells or an intelligent reappraisal of new age music (if such a thing is possible), this evocative dreamscape evaporates if observed closely, yet makes fine background music.

"[16] The Windsor Star stated that "the frustration grows as you realize each 'tune' is made of layers of synthesized textures that seem to lead nowhere.

"[7] The Waterloo Region Record determined that "its unrelenting moodiness begins to wear thin by about track three, the hypnotic 'Red Shift', and by the ninth or 10th number the whole thing has become a kind of John Cage meets muzak.

"[13] AllMusic wrote that the album "possesses a depth and complexity which standard ambient recordings lack.