The duo's work has political themes,[2] and they described the title track as a "hymn of gratitude [...] to their queer and trans predecessors".

[5] Pitchfork awarded the album their "Best New Music" distinction, with the site's Evan Minsker calling it "a sludgy and simmering call to action", and writing that the duo "splice panoptic frenzy with near-ambient calm to underscore the present fraught moment in history where oppression is written into law".

[1] Ben Beaumont-Thomas of The Guardian felt that the songs "wander between post-rock, stoner rock, doom and black metal" and while "too often in the quieter sections, the duo opt for ponderous arpeggiated runs of notes that make their songs feel pedestrian rather than merely slow[,] when they bring in groove [...] they carry the listener aloft to a hard-won clarity".

's Jeremy Sheehy stated that "while it isn't a perfect record, it's filled with the kind of raw, honest emotionality that has punctuated the band's work and made them a darling of the underground metal community".

[6] Rolling Stone named it the third-best metal album of 2023, praising the band's "powerful pathos, and the innate synchronicity of their approach.