[3] AllMusic reviewer Tim Sendra wrote that apart from "The Golden Bough", which was the only upbeat song on the album, it was otherwise full of "moody, understated ballads and cinematic instrumentals".

[5] "The Watcher in the Distance" evoked the sound of the Doors, while "Gently" was compared to the work of John Lennon with its electric guitar and piano instrumentation.

[12] Sendra was perplexed that it remained shelved for as long as it did, as it "works perfectly as a follow-up to The Invisible Invasion, further stripping down their sound to the bare essentials and really allowing the songs to breath".

[6] NME writer Matthew Horton saw it as a "neat record, filled with the mystic folk and lithe psychedelia that made them so refreshing back in the day".

[2] Daniel Jeakins of The Line of Best Fit, meanwhile, found it to be an "oddly bipolar record that can’t seem to decide whether love is indeed a curse or a blessing", and mentioning that it was "justifiably scrapped" in light of Roots & Echoes.

[5] Xs Noize's Stewart Gibson wrote that, with its unique status in mind, it "sort of works [as a whole] but ends up sounding like a cut price Coral album treading familiar ground".