 The track 'Stevie' on the album refers to the poet and novelist Stevie Smith with its chorus echoing the title of her poem 'Not Waving But Drowning' .The song premiered at 'The Beat Goes On' at the Royal Albert Hall in 2005, an event to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1965 International Poetry Incarnation at the same venue

"Drowned In Sound" suggested the album "is captivating, even if it's not all that it could be" with "Popmatters" review concluding that it's "an album that is extremely hard to get out of one's head indeed".and "The Guardian" chiming 'both beautiful and intense, her best album yet'