 A negative review came from "Trouser Press", which wrote that the album "completely lacks all the tension, songwriting, sounds and power of the band's work, leaving only the spatial dimensions", calling it "essentially a solo ambient recording by singer/guitarist Neil Halstead that should have been released under his own name".The song "Blue Skied an' Clear" was featured on the soundtrack of the 1995 film "The Doom Generation".In 1999, critic Ned Raggett ranked "Pygmalion" at number 122 on his list of "The Top 136 or So Albums of the Nineties" for "Freaky Trigger".