[1][2][3] The authors of The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings awarded the album a full 4 stars, and wrote: "Minton has abandoned any identifiable verbal component and the group behave more than ever like a prismatic lens, revolving around him.

Here and there... they come together in something like conventional ensemble or combo playing, but for the most part the instruments maintain a certain distance one from the other, which gives Phil's yelps, barks and wails an even stranger connotation.

"[4] In a review for All About Jazz, John Eyles stated: "Minton's extraordinary voice becomes an instrument... conveying a vast array of emotions and meanings through sound alone.

As so often, that voice astonishes in the diversity of sound it can produce; moans, yelps, whoops, squeals, guttural roars, breathless gasps, dark mutterings, Loony Tunes squawking—and much more—are all in Minton's repertoire.

"[5] AAJ's Nic Jones commented: "It's probably no kind of aid at all to highlight just how far removed from the tried and trusted this music is.