Road also includes two guest musicians, Lotte Anker (saxophone) and Susana Santos Silva (trumpet), whom the Trio had invited to perform with them during their US East Coast and European tours in October 2019.

Medrano said the inclusion of Anker and Santos Silva ("two extraordinary guests") on the second disc brings another layer of possibility to the trio's music, enhancing its "spirit, sound, and intention".

[4] Bell added that sometimes Frith's guitar appears to "float off into a reverb-drenched dreamland", leaving the rest of the group sounding, just for a moment, "slightly lost".

[5] Daniel Spicer wrote in the British monthly, Jazzwise, that, as on the group's two previous albums, Frith once again displays his "lateral thinking and restless creativity".

[2] Spicer said on the first CD, the trio "wanders unhurriedly from lumbering riffage to diaphanous soundscape", while on the second, guest Anker "slides from an assured, earthy tone to keening cry" and Santos Silva "unlocks a trove of extended techniques, from liquid ululations to blustery barrages".