On its original British release, it appeared in a matt pale sepia cardboard sleeve, blank except for the name of the album and the band, with all the information contained on the inner sleeve and a sepia poster of the band inside.

The band's official website describes it as "a disappointment", although it praises the single "All Fall Down".

[8] Bruce Eder, writing for AllMusic in 2004, gave the album a rating of four stars.

He described the band's playing as "spirited" and the songs as "enjoyable", and suggested that the rock press "savaged the album unfairly".

[7] Live Music Magazine considered that the album "had a very crisp sound, very upfront, and more of a mainstream hard rock sound", but felt that "this was not the move that the critics had wanted or expected of the band", and that "the songwriting didn't match the prior two albums".