'New Glory' is exhilarating free-jazz with a Chick Corea-like Latin vamp in it, and there are deep clarinet and bass interludes, brief bursts of rock-piano riffing and subtle minglings of electronic loops and long-tone sax sounds on 'Phantom Ratio'.

"[5] Writing for JazzTimes, Colin Fleming stated, "the challenge in making a hybrid acoustic/electronic album sound like a genuine blend rests in large part with ensemble play, from which solos emerge—tendrils as extensions of the whole.

This four-piece unit, led by Craig Taborn on piano and various electronic accouterments [...] proves itself befitting of the specters of the title, moving in diaphanous forms with haunting presence.

"[14] RTÉ.ie's Paddy Kehoe stated, "At times you sense here solid, cerebral cubes of sound being made to melt in the heat of performance, yet it’s not as simple as that, as Taborn and company do so much more.

"[3] Cormac Larkin of The Irish Times added, "Eclectic and episodic, like a vaguely unsettling art movie, Daylight Ghosts glows with the heat of invention, but it’s couched in language that Taborn’s predecessors would have understood.