[5] Shear promoted the album with a North American tour, including shows with Alison Moyet.

[12] The Philadelphia Daily News deemed the album a "philosophical jigsaw of love's fragmented state.

"[11] The Calgary Herald determined that Shear "tempers his incredible facility for hook-drive melodicism with a bracing dose of metaphorical allusiveness.

"[19] The Washington Post called the title track one of Shear's "would-be metaphysical riddles.

"[6] The Los Angeles Times stated that the album "finds him wading comfortably within the more eccentric rapids of the mainstream.