"[7] The Washington Post wrote that "it's the passion of Connolly's organ-pumping, tambourine-bashing persona that makes The Lyres' variations on three chords sink deeper and ring truer than most rock acts, past or present.

"[14] Musician magazine opined, "The Lyres are garage band classicists ... who know how to make the most of an 8-bar guitar break or organ rave-up.

[17] AllMusic wrote that "while [Jeff] Conolly's Vox Continental organ keeps his 1960s obsessions up-front throughout, the rest of the band is capable of generating a hard-driving groove, and the performances capture what was exciting and soulful about 1960s punk without drowning in a sea of 'retro.

"[12] Trouser Press called the album "simply the [garage-rock] genre’s apotheosis, an articulate explosion of colorful organ playing, surging guitars and precisely inexact singing.

Its author wrote: "The album is a seminal work of garage-rock/punk shot through with an artless ... sensibility and stuffed with rock-and-roll gold.