[1][2] The first single was "The Light Will Stay On", which was a hit in many European countries; the album, by 2003, had sold around 85,000 copies on the continent.

[9][10] Mark Nichols arranged the string parts, which were performed by the Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra.

[13][11] Trouser Press deemed Devil's Road the band's "most ambitiously eclectic album and certainly one of its best.

"[13] The Irish Times praised "the countryish lament, 'The Leaving Kind', with Carla Torgerson's evocative doomed vocals carrying a refrain laden with the grim fruits of fate's calling.

"[17] Reviewing the reissue, the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph determined that "the band's melancholy fusion of folk, country and Americana is captured at its most compelling on Chris Eckman creations such as 'The Light Will Stay On', 'Rebecca Wild' and 'Forgiveness Song'.