"[8] Writing for Burning Ambulance, Phil Freeman commented: "The mere fact that there's a second album by this group makes me happy.

"[11] In an article for The Quietus, Peter Margasak noted that the musicians have found "a bracing freebop sweet spot together," and wrote: "there's an abiding equanimity to the proceedings, imbuing the performances with grace regardless of how fiery things might get...

"[12] Daniel Spicer of Jazzwise praised the title track, calling it "a deceptively conventional hard-bop swinger with a big-grinned joie de vivre," as well as "Da Bang" (dedicated to Billy Bang), which "bursts out of an extended solo drum intro with an irresistible bass vamp heavy enough to establish its own gravitational field.

"[7] The New York City Jazz Record's George Kanzler also singled out the title track, on which Altschul and Fonda "mesh, expanding and contracting rhythms like images in a kaleidoscope, Lake and Haynes trading and jamming lines, cornet floating long notes, alto bobbing and weaving, pinching a note, arpeggiating a string of them.

"[14] Gary Chapin of The Free Jazz Collective commented: "I'm not going to call it effortless, but there's an ease to the group that comes from their decades of experience and the naturalness of their musical relationships.