References to Comus by other bands and artists include Opeth, citing its lyrics in album and song titles and tattoos.

The cover artwork was drawn in ball point pen by Roger Wootton, lead singer and songwriter of the band.

[5] The Wire included it on their 1998 list of "100 Records That Set The World On Fire [When No One Was Listening]", calling it "[f]olk rock at its most delirious, devilish, and dynamic.

"[6] In 2014, FACT Magazine ranked it the 22nd best album of the 1970s, writing:[7] Based in Kent, Comus specialised in ingenious hokum: squawking tales of torture, pagan worship, zephyrs and psychotics.

Unsurprisingly, they barely made a commercial ripple [...], but from the twanging fiddles and eldritch voices of ‘Diana’ onwards, First Utterance is both unapologetically weird and commendably self-assured.