Irmin Schmidt, Can's keyboard player, called Out of Reach the climax of the band's confusion, "musically and psychologically, and in every sense it's bad".

[2] As a partial result of Czukay's departure, style of bassist Rosko Gee and percussionist Reebop Kwaku Baah dominated on this album (particularly on "Give Me No 'Roses'" and "Like Inobe God").

"[6] Rosko Gee wrote and performed vocals on "Pauper's Daughter and I", quoting the "Jack and Jill" nursery rhyme, and on "Give Me No 'Roses'".

As with every other track here, "One More Day" refuses to open up any space, though it's the most experimental piece sonically, with "wibbly synthetic effects applied to the drums and grinding atonal synth".

Irmin Schmidt, Can's keyboard player, called Out of Reach the climax of Can's confusion, "musically and psychologically, and in every sense it's bad".

[3] Stewart Mason, in the AllMusic's retrospective review, claimed that many fans don't consider Out of Reach to be a "true Can album", because only two founding members are fully involved in its creation, with a diminished contribution from Liebezeit.

[1] On a more negative side, journalist Andy Gill opined that Gee and Baah "seem to impose too strict a sense of rhythm on Can's once free-flowing music, which are diluted with insipid reggae riffs."

[16] Richardson, conceptually, liked the Can's exploration of "Latin disco rock", the genre known for "thick layers and elasticity", but he didn't enjoy the result.

"Give Me No 'Roses'" was labeled by Richardson as an "OK lite-rock fluff" with chorus containing Out of Reach's "only successful hook", but the song gets ruined by weak vocals.