 "Comes with a Smile" consider the album to be "the missing link between sprawling seventies rock and trim eighties post-punk".Pitchfork noted "an overabundance of post-adolescent fervor" in the music.Popmatters considers the album to be "perfect road fodder in its own inimitable way", noting driving-related themes in its lyrics and a similarly suggestive sound in the music (citing the track "Driving Song" as an example).