The third single taken from the album, "Imagination" (with Anka Wolbert on lead vocals) reached #85[5] on Billboard Hot 100 and remains Xymox's biggest commercial success to date.

[6] Contrary to official songwriting credits (see Track listing below), lead singer and frontman Ronny Moorings told Premonition in a 2003 interview that he allegedly "always wrote the music and the words [him]self since the beginning of Clan Of Xymox in 1984".

Also in 2010, Bert Barten claimed to have shared authorship for songs on Twist of Shadows, asserting "It was always a big grey area who wrote what and who inspired who.

According to SPIN, Twist of Shadows signified the most sophisticated stage in the band's gradual evolution from arty obscurity into pop accessibility.

[14] The Great Indie Discography found the album "decidedly dated...stuck in a mid-80s groove",[15] while the St. Petersburg Times looked back at Twist of Shadows as "brilliant...[w]ith a dense, almost Gothic sound that borrowed as heavily from Pink Floyd as it did modern techno-popsters".