[1][2][3][4] In an article for The Quietus, Peter Margasak noted the musicians' "sympathetic connection, with the reedist's innate lyricism blending beautifully with the keyboardist's more outward bound machinations," and stated: "their quicksilver adoptions of a quickly morphing sonic landscape keeps listeners on their edge of their seats...

"[6] Phil Freeman of Stereogum called the album "terrific," noting that, at times, Thomas and Roberts "sound like Cecil Taylor and Jimmy Lyons, creative partners for more than 25 years."

"[7] Writing for Point of Departure, David Grundy and Gabriel Bristow remarked: "Roberts and Thomas both will let a melodic statement ring out, consider it, repeat it, then develop in tandem.

"[8] Spectrum Culture's Jake Cole described the pair as "ideal dance partners for a duet," and wrote: "the two gel so well that the album could easily be pitched as a concise summary of either artist's career... the album could have come across as an attempt to match other seminal LP-length jazz classics, but there's never any sense that Roberts and Thomas are attempting to enter the canon, merely to do what jazz has always done: let one person leap out ahead to watch the other chart their own path to meet them.

"[9] A writer for Marlbank called the album "wonderful," and stated: "a key point is how two instrumentalists in the moment adapt their own vision to the other's not by submission but by comprehension and intuition, the two indistinguishable.