On the 7" single for "Entertainment"/"Arc in Round", the titles of the two songs are reversed from the way they are listed on In Debt.

AllMusic gave the album a mixed review, describing it as "clearly inspired by such post-punk luminaries as The Durutti Column, early Wire, and above all else, Joy Division [...] on first blush it seemed unlikely the band would go further than fine nostalgia", despite singling out the track "Waking Up" as the band's "first total masterpiece, opening with an echoed bass note, astoundingly subtle percussion samples, then the deadly calm lyric 'A sky without a god is a clear blue sky.'"

"[3] Record Collector called the album "out of step, it's like they started the post-punk revival a decade or so early [...] Not bad stuff: tuneful, and even mournfully poppy if you squint.

"[9] The Line of Best Fit wrote that the album "could be seen as an alternate ending point for post-punk, dissolving its angularity and anger in a wash of dreaming delay.".

[6] Despite criticizing its "patina of unforgiving recording techniques so common for bands with limited funds at the time, the slew of cheap or hastily deployed effects failing to mask shortcomings in performance", The Herald wrote that the band, on this compilation, "outgrow influences such as Joy Division to point the way towards a future in which they would tilt fearlessly at bliss through a painterly use of spartan guitar (later augmented by sampling) welded to rhythmic adventurousness.