He commented: "Wild but still songlike collective thrashes swell out of catchy hooks...; the street-brass sound of the old Brotherhood of Breath big band is echoed in struts like 'Irmite is Right'; the sonorous chant 'Dikelelu' has a rumbling, Coltranesque undertow; and bassist John Edwards' crunching basswalk under Hawkins' zig-zagging piano solo on 'Sonke' is awesome.

[5] Kevin Le Gendre of Jazzwise noted that many of the songs on the album "are steeped in the kind of pathos that would melt the hardest of hearts yet crucially they steer clear of any facile sentimentality."

"[4] JazzWord's Ken Waxman wrote: "It's bassist John Edwards' solid time-keeping and pianist Alexander Hawkins' kinetic chording that drive the undertaking as much as the keening solos from saxophonist Jason Yarde and Ntshuks Bonga.

"[7] Writing for The Quietus, Sean Kitching stated: "Although Moholo-Moholo has worked with a number of uniquely talented piano players... there's something really magical about the reciprocity that occurs when he plays with Alexander Hawkins.

The way they lock into each other's playing, Hawkins delivering fast, almost percussive keyboard runs describing the melodic line of the tune emerging from the near chaos of group interplay, his attention perfectly attuned to Moholo-Moholo's mesmerisingly fluid drumming, is truly something special.