[4] The CD release party for starfruit was held at the Lexington Avenue Arts & Fun Festival, on September 3, 2011, where they performed on the Arts2People electric stage.

Weekly says the album is "both a tribute to and a product of the most impulsive part of the psychic apparatus, a romantic notion in theory, but rarely consonant in praxis."

He commends their rendition of Dream Academy's "Life in a Northern Town", saying that it is an "infectious and uplifting recitation of the once carefree middle-class lifestyle, and it's a rarity in pop music where tasteful jazz drums can push a song from good to great", however notes the "overdubbed vocal tracks and misplaced outbursts obscure and complicate Morgan's dynamic range and the band's driving rhythm on "Life of Pi.

""[4] A The Daily Times reviewer says, "with vocals as smoky and sultry as a glass of red wine[,] starfruit drips with a complex weave of layers and studio bells and whistles that give the album a lush, expansive sound.

"[2] San Antonio Express-News says starfruit "takes Morgan's precious confessional talents and mashes them with a ghostly, childlike quality, amplified by toy pianos and bell-like interludes that would feel at home at a rave, alt-rock club or mix-tape party.