[7][8] At this time, Frederick Barthelme left the band to pursue writing and conceptual art in New York City (working for a brief period at the Kornblee Gallery) and was replaced by Tommy Smith.

[20] Mark Deming of AllMusic wrote, "God Bless the Red Krayola and All Who Sail With It bears precious little resemblance to anything else that appeared at the time; it would take a few decades of post-punk experimentalism before Mayo Thompson's vision would have a truly suitable context".

[21] The Spin Alternative Record Guide called the album "superb", describing it as "small songs full of quiet terror and acoustic confusion".

With God Bless, the joke had already worn thin, but after Radar reissued the first two albums in England, a band of arty post-punk minimalists attempted to carry the tradition onward, with particularly insipid results".

[22] Pitchfork's Alex Lindhart wrote, "For all the laudations heaped upon the Krayola by the punk and post-punk crowds, it might as well be bootleg Einstürzende Neubauten at its grimiest atonality and infuritating double integral time signatures".

[2] Lindhart added "the Krayola's legacy is surely bolstered by their location in rock history – simply put, this was likely the most experimental band of the 1960s".

[24] As part of the 2011 CD reissue booklet Sonic Boom of Spacemen 3 (who remastered the album as well as their debut at New Atlantis studios) said: "Nearly every track, recorded in '68, seems to presage the whole of independent music from '75 thru to, well, now!"

also comparing portions of the tracklist to artists such as Syd Barrett, Richard Hell, Tortoise, Animal Collective and the Monochrome Set.

[10][11] Joseph Byrd[25] of the United States of America called "Listen to This" his favorite song on the album, he recalled attending Red Krayola rehearsals before forming his own group.

[29] Keith Connolly of Bomb remarked that God Bless sounded like it was predicting bands such as the Minutemen, Unrest, Bastro and Gastr Del Sol.