At the ARIA Music Awards of 2018 it was nominated for Best Adult Contemporary Album and Breakthrough Artist – Release.

[2] She began writing music at approximately eight years old, while attending Haberfield Public School.

[3][4] In 2017, Odette released her debut single, "Watch Me Read You", a piano ballad incorporating spoken word which she wrote in England in 2015.

[7] Happy Mag's Luke Saunders called the album "a poetic tapestry of melancholy soul and powerful pop ballads.

"[8] Triple J praised Odette's "canny ability to weave melodic meditations that, like her singing, hover in the space between sensuous composition and spoken-word poetry" throughout the album.