Mitch Borden, the club's owner recalled that, "Kurt Rosenwinkel's band played with such dramatic fire, that it would consume everyone present".

[5] The album features several songs with alternate guitar tunings, and also showcases Kurt Rosenwinkel's piano playing on the title track.

The deft rhythm section percolates, both in sync with and against the grain of all that twisty foreground material, giving the music a rigorous but gorgeous richness.

"[6] Ben Ratliff in The New York Times described the music as "the epitome of sensitive, modest-tempered art, the kind that doesn't assert itself until the moment is right.

"[7] Years later, Nate Chinen would write that Rosenwinkel "made a personal breakthrough here — crafting a statement that has deeply informed more than one subsequent wave of the modern mainstream...Together, on the album, [the quartet] sound both reflective and radiant.