 Despite writing that "he's not always lethal", "Pitchfork"s Joshua Klein commented that Green "manages to avoid being both too rough or too smooth", complimenting his "contemporary, confident conception of soul music" and the album's ""de rigueur" synthetic frills".Barry Walters of "Spin" noted its "detailed encapsulations of Saturday-night transcendence and Sunday-morning love pains" and its music "beautifully busy 21st-century Motown as greasy as it is vibrant".Amy Linden of "The Village Voice" called the album "romantic—chaste, even", writing that "[Green]'s written a manual on how to both break and mend someone's heart".