[14] Music journalist Will Hermes notes "sublimely janky '80s synths and melodies that jab and slide" on the album's songs.

"[4] The album's subject matter is droll, stark, and confessional, and focuses on the pains of love, romance, and sex.

"[9] "Highlights" has him musing on a failed affair, as he uses a metaphor: "Old lovers turned critics curse at you on the silver screen".

[10] Thanks to the success of artists like India.Arie and Alicia Keys, the term neo soul has become a marketable genre and the major record labels have spent the last couple of years putting their dwindling resources into the search for the next cool cat.

[6]Ernest Hardy of Rolling Stone found the album to have "no duds" and stated, "Unlike his neosoul brethren, [Hunt] wraps his seamlessly quilted voice around wry, off-kilter lyrics; his skewed views on love and life are wholly his.