[3] Along with "Rook" (1992) and "Easter Theatre" (1999), he named "Wrapped in Grey" as one of the "perfect songs" of his career, feeling that he had "exorcised a lot of those kind of Lennon-and-McCartney, Bacharach-and-David, Brian Wilson type ghosts out of my system by doing all that.

[1] Music journalist Pete Paphides highlighted the song's "transcendent Beach Boys-style harmonies" and felt it would one day make "a most fitting epitaph".

[6] Virgin's choice of "Wrapped in Grey" as a single pleased Partridge, who considered it a leap into "the adult market".

[8] He planned and storyboarded a silhouette animation music video for the song inspired by the work of Lotte Reiniger.

[8] Partridge later recognised "Wrapped in Grey" as among the songs from Nonsuch that pointed towards the orchestral textures and acoustic backbone of its follow-up Apple Venus Volume 1 (1999).