[citation needed] Allmusic cites the song as "a club hit that features Glenn Gregory's moody, dramatic lead above a percolating vocal and synth arrangement.

"[3] Band member Martyn Ware has acknowledged "Let Me Go" as Heaven 17's finest song: “There’s a certain sonata form to it as well where it builds and then it dies down towards the end.

[4] "Let Me Go" was one of the first commercial releases to feature the Roland TB-303, a bass synthesiser which would play a pivotal role in the acid house movement that emerged in Chicago and Manchester later in the decade.

[6] Directed by Steve Barron, the video was primarily filmed in black and white, and starts at Lothbury showing a deserted London.

Behind the scenes footage from the filming at the station featured in an edition of the BBC arts series Riverside, which was broadcast on 29 November 1982.