Mystikal continues his path towards combining past and present—with, most importantly, a clear eye on the future".

The greater achievement, however, is the way he develops a template for how modern jazz can be re-immersed in funk rhythms without sounding dated, and how he then successfully merging turntablism into that same context.

[5] In JazzTimes, Mike Shanley wrote: "The album alternates between acoustic tracks like the title piece or Kenny Dorham’s “Poetic” and electric songs.

One of Roney's more compelling qualities comes in the way he utilizes elements of the latter setting–basic funk riffs, clavinet, electric piano–to keep the fire burning rather than smoothing down the melodic potential.

The only distraction from the program comes from Jeanty's samples and spoken-word interludes, which seem to pop up every time the horns take a break".