[6] David Stubbs from Melody Maker wrote, "Carried through by a wah-wah synth that recalls the manna-strewn days of the best early Eighties pop--imagine a more emboldened Saint Etienne, Dubstar having shaken off their melancholy with a couple of Screwdrivers.

Peach could be the Pearly Kings and Queens of pop come '97 if they keep up the pace of this debut single.

"[7] Another Melody Maker editor, Jonathan Selzer, commented, "'On My Own' is a song about personal destiny.

Like Saint Etienne, Peach create perfect, composite settings, somewhere between Mansfield and Monte Carlo, bonding kitchen sink drama and cosmopolitan glitz.

"[1] In 2017, Billboard ranked it number 67 in their list of "The 100 Greatest Pop Songs of 1997", naming it "a fantastic, totally forgotten one-off that sounded like an Britpop-injected version of St. Etienne's pop sophistication".