 The review also praised the duet between Shirey and Aimee Curl.He has had two songs featured as NPR's Song of the Day.About one of his live performances at the time, which often feature Shirey recruiting audience members to assist with instruments, "Huffington Post" wrote "every noise wrung out of a piece of cheap plastic or kazoo or run through his complicated amplification, stood on its own and had something authentic to say about sound and its resonance with the human nervous system.