 That month, "The Irish Times"s rock critic Jim Carroll called the record "one of the best Irish debut albums of the last 20 years" and hoped The Immediate would "be around for a long time to come".The "Irish Independent"s John Meagher named it his fifteenth best Irish album of the 2000s.Following the album's nomination for the Choice Prize in 2007 (which led to a performance at the awards ceremony on 28 February), the band also performed at the 2007 Meteor Awards.