In a review for AllMusic, Timothy Monger wrote: "Spontaneity has always been an element of Yorkston's style, but the loose group-mind feel captured here yields appealingly fresh and intimate results.

Against his half-spoken musings, a celestial array of jangling guitars, strings, and flutes play out, lifting the music up in a Scottish-Scandinavian communion of burgeoning friendship.

[2] The London Evening Standard said the album's tracks are "hopeful experiments that have the warm, relaxed feel of a Scottish pub’s improv session.

It’s contagious joy to hear players with such abandon and intuition, braiding their lines together..."[6] Writing for Loud and Quiet, Sam Reid gave a 7 out of 10, explaining: "Two things are going on here.

Yorkston's original songs – all vocal inflections and lyrical specificity – were all written before recording.