In an interview, bandleader Peter Wareham explained, "The need to dance is still there but now I’m feeling inspired by the idea of the city as a prism through which all kinds of global influences pass...Translation, immigration, overcoming obstacles - and most of all, human unity.

By the end the process had become about trying to capture the band’s energy whilst writing and recording"[2] Clash praised the album as a "blast of musical exploration" and noted that frontman Kusal Gaya is "moving away from his native Mauritian/French Creole to sing in English".

[5] Last Evenings on Earth was called "as damn close to a masterpiece as you can get" by Cultured Vultures, who also wrote that the album showed "a band at the height of both command and vision, merging sonics and aesthetics into something uniquely and officially theirs".

[6] Loud and Quiet called the album "a perfect mix of David Byrne-esque vocal upon manic tablas, mizmars, electronic beats and guitars" but also wrote that the music is "disappointingly too similar to the great breakthrough of the band’s previous production".

It continues, "a frenzy of north African instrumentation, punk and deranged jazz leads a collision of sounds that channels the spirit of revolution, and the heat and claustrophobia of a politically fractious city".