Mikloš reprised his collaboration with Andrej Monček for one song, "You Never Listen", promoted also on a single, which became his highest charting outcome on the SK Rádio Top 50 to date,[6] debuting and peaking at number twenty-six.

[8] Upon release, The Past of the Future earned from favorable to positive reviews from music journalists, with many of them rating the work as the finest full-length effort recorded by Mikloš, or rather his most mature album until then.

[5] Tadeáš Haager from alternative Radio Wave station, acknowledged singer for managing to learn from mistakes in the past, referring to a monotonous sound of his previous outputs as observed by local journalists once upon a time.

While stressing artist's credibility to perform also in English, Haager concluded that "listening to Mikloš doesn't mean to hear some sonic boom of a pioneer and trailblazer, it is more likely an incredibly skilled tribute to [his] foreign models with no need to be ashamed for and to dissociate self from them.

[11] In contrast to Haager though, Filantrop himself reproached Mikloš for a somewhat awkward English pronunciation, summarizing his notes with: "The Past of the Future with no export intentions, thus, has been quite obviously meant for audiences located in Central Europe, preferably in there, where the world music could be forty years seen only from behind the Iron Curtain.

"[12] Zuzana Husárová from now ceased Žurnál weekly with focus on social and political issues in SK, was most impressed by depth of the album's testimony, comparing his songs to "leaves [he] throws down off himself.