First Light's Freeze

Brian Howe from pitchforkmedia.com described the album as ' stringing together disembodied fragments of gothic Americana with brief, freaky interludes',[2] while Heather Pares finds the themes of 'war and friendship' expressed through 'sparkling nighttime laments'.

[1] David Bernard in popmatters.com found the album 'consistently captivating' while 'many tracks hum with electronics and crawl along at a codeine pace'.

[3] Grigsby of tinymixtapes.com praised Raposa's writing as '[his] strength might lie in melancholy pop songs, and at that, he might be peerless'.

[4] Matthew Ozga of prefixmag was less impressed calling the album 'a real snooze musically' while characterising Raposa as a 'relentless obscurantist'.

[8] All tracks are written by Raymond RaposaAs with the previous release Cathedral, contributors as simply listed as 'performers' without indicating their specific role.