He said Tim Hodgkinson's "warbly, watery, unsteady" vocals define the album's mood, while Catherine Jauniaux's voice is "good, squeaky fun".

[1] Anderson liked "Balance" with its "frenetic polka-like punkiness", and called "Brickyard"'s "exploration of multi-layered percussion and guitar sounds" the best track.

[7] Jones added that "Le Travail" evokes the atmosphere of Henry Cow's Western Culture, and "Pop" suggests "some kind of interface" between the Work and British post-punk band the Slits.

[7] Reviewing Slow Crimes in Record Collector, Tim Peacock wrote that just as Henry Cow operated outside the confines of rock music, the Work have done the same on this album, making it "a punishing listening experience".

[8] He felt that while the "prowling, angular" "Cain & Abel" and the "atmospheric" "Le Travail" "rise above the morass", the rest of the album suffers from the group's "ill-disciplined art-pop leanings".