[8] Beats Per Minute described the single as playing like a "graceful caress, piano chords rising and falling in gentle waves while serene and angelic adornments flutter in the background like softly-falling snow.

Knox's rich baritone matches the understated grandiosity of the instrumentation, but his story is by turns acerbic, pitying and hopeless.

[1] Writing for Beats Per Minute, Rob Hakimian said: "Such is the elegance and detail of Knox’s songwriting and voice – not to mention the exquisite instrumentation – that one can't help but get swept up in it and extrapolate from it.

It kicks off with the quintessentially Raindogs-era Waits barroom piano and squalling woodwind of "King Of The Ball", followed by the woozy (and very Lynchian) lounge-jazz of "Vinegar Hill", but switches mood thereafter, with most of the remaining songs occupying sombre ballad territory.

"[6] Tom Critten for Loud and Quiet wrote: "Across this striking record, he proves he is beyond capable of producing excellence; his is a majestic body of work that demands repeat listening.