[1] AllMusic rated it , highlighted several tracks, writing that the "background of 'Fingers, Drains' warbles in heat and melting instrument noises, and Boyd's vocal on it is downright sultry".

They also praised 'Sleep Walkers' as having the "most efficient music Modey Lemon's ever made; it sounds like a lost Golden Earring B-side with its throbbing bass and insistent drum clap".

He wrote that 'Bucket of Butterflies' moves from a "sludgy, lumbering opening riff into a lighter, melodic shuffle through strummed sparkling pop into a three-note Disney villain gallop onto a snarling chorus and adroitly back to square one to start again".

[3] Canadian music critic Cam Linday wrote in Exclaim!, that the album is a "riff-driven blast of psychedelic freak-outs and power rock that never settles down in its desire to make rock'n'roll dangerous again ... the heaviness of the music relies on building irrepressible grooves to keep it from relaxing into a coma of straight-up rock".

Mercedes' is "like something from the salad days of Mudhoney" and 'Fingers, Drains' has the "voodoo feel and lyrical deliverance of a Dr. John track".