 Brandon Wu of Ground and Sky said that despite his "relative indifference" to the album, one of "Gravity" great strengths is that it is both accessible and avant-garde.Writing in "Sounds", John Gill described "Gravity" as an album of "wonderfully stateless music", a blend of jazz, rock'n'roll, chamber, European ethnic, and New York City soul and Hispanic.With a reference to Frith's former bands, Henry Cow and Art Bears, Gill added "[a]nd "this" time, folks, you "can" dance to it!