 Clare Colley of musicOMH described the album as a "back to basics record", with "Do Ya" and "If You Belong To Me" as its best tracks.Ultimately she was disappointed with the release; she criticized the lyrics as generally "mawkish", with the album overall "chronically underdeveloped and bland".Christian Hoard and Jon Caramanica of "Rolling Stone" gave the album two stars out of five, writing that Richie had not "stray[ed] too far from his strengths" in producing the work.