[6] London-based monthly magazine Uncut also praised the album, stating: "Mid Air amounts to 14 enigmatic variations on this mood, just piano, voice, the occasional pale moonbeam of orchestration, which miraculously never feels monotonous or morose".

They sneak up on you like the flame of a lighter, nicking your fingers as you try lighting a cigarette in the wind" and added: "the former frontman of U.K. darlings The Blue Nile isn't well-known in the States, and who knows if he'll ever get his due here--he's already 56.

[3] Rosie Wilby of musicOMH found "Buchanan's vocals and dancing piano playing are bolstered only by airy synthetic tapestries of strings that float in and hover over closing choruses, as if wary of waking the sleeping city", with the following conclusion: "many Blue Nile classics whispered their way to five minutes without outstaying their welcome, and there's plenty here that could have done the same.

In mixed reviews, Fiona Shepherd of The Scotsman wrote: "it sounds like a work he created by sneaking into the studio at night when everyone had gone home and he could indulge his hangdog tendencies in peace and solitude".

Q magazine critic stated: "the effect's akin to eavesdropping on a suite of grateful elegies for life's ordinary dramas of love and hope" and resumed: "the accompanying impression of sincerity is enough to save unashamedly sentimental tunes such as Wedding Party and Two Children from mawkishness".