[1] Pitchfork named it "Best New Music", with the site's Stephen Kearse describing it as playing like "a sampler of a time-warped '80s that took place entirely in Brown's head" as well as "freestyle through a buoyant, time-warped haze" and "both captivating and elusive".

's staff named it a pick upon release and called it "a wonderland, a lushly and unselfconsciously rendered world of deep blues and purples" with Brown combining "glittery freestyle, lean post-punk and sweeping Blue Nile-esque sophistipop into his own potent blend".

[1] Laura Snapes of The Guardian wrote that the album's "themes of sex, socialism and subjugation hit hard but never weigh heavy, couched in fuzzily buoyant, earwormy choruses that are almost as affirming as classic Lionel Richie or Barry White refrains.

[5] Paste ranked it the 17th best album of 2023, writing that its "blend of '90s R&B and '80s freestyle is so impressive because it appears to have arrived fully formed.

[6] Gorilla vs. Bear ranked it the best album of 2023, calling it "a refreshing, genre-defying outlier" that "sounds like no one but Nourished by Time, as Brown conjures a magical, one-of-a-kind modern synthesis of '90s R&B, '80s freestyle, bedroom pop, and soul that transcends any and all of his myriad influences".