It features material previously released on the studio albums Desperate Character (1981), Kite (1989), Electric Landlady (1991) and Titanic Days (1993), among other tracks by MacColl, totalling eighteen songs.

Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth "One in a line of great English songwriters that includes Ray Davies, Paul Weller and Morrissey… the Noelle Coward of her generation!"

Kirsty's got the talent, the looks, the guts, the imagination, the passion, the hunger and whatever that magic thing is that makes her one of the great one-offs, and should be up where she belongs."

David Byrne "Strange stories of people, relationships and life, with all the wit of Ray Davies and the harmonic invention of The Beach Boys.

[3] David Bennun of Melody Maker was negative in his review, concluding, "Galore charts a musical career that seems to have existed for no particular reason, and has bequeathed us a back catalogue of no great distinction.