 According to "The Toronto Star", "White's bent Americana and Benson's British invasion-isms yields wonderfully unpredictable results".Kitty Empire of "The Observer" called the album "lively" and said it "finds [the Raconteurs] luxuriating in fancy stuff with kid-in-a-sweetshop enthusiasm.Minimalism is out, bombast is in; the detail, is, as ever, lip-smacking."