 Neil Lade of "The Canberra Times" described the single "[it's] quite a dismal and derivative little number that easily falls into the category of throw-away music" while the rest of the album's "overall feeling is of soft soul and a gentle mood prevails".In May 1985 Armiger won Producer of the Year at the annual of 1984.During the mid-1980s Armiger composed the stage musical "Illusion" for the 1986 Adelaide Festival of the Arts and co-composed "Manning Clark's History of Australia - The Musical" which premiered at Melbourne's Princess Theatre in January 1988.