[2][3] Colleen Taylor of The Irish Echo reviewed that the album saw Rusby return to acoustic folk after recent experimentation with electronic.

[2] "Bogey's Bonnie Belle" is a 20th-century Scots folk song that has been performed by Irish artists including Christy Moore and Cherish the Ladies.

[2] The final track, "Halt the Wagons", was written for the 180th anniversary of the Huskar Pit mining disaster in which 26 children died, following which Parliament restricted underground work to people aged at least ten years old.

The song and music video featured members of the Barnsley Youth Choir in the same demographics as the victims: aged seven to seventeen, with 15 boys and 11 girls.

[3] In Louder Than War, Mike Ainscoe positively reviewed songs such as "Until Morning", with its "exquisiteness", and "Halt the Wagons", after which "there won't be a dry eye in the house".

Ainscoe called the cover songs a "surprise highlight" and said that O'Kane's guitar was "caressed with a touch so precise and sensitive that belies its potential dominance".