"Trouser Press" singled out the "splendorous title track", the "should-have-been-a-smash 'Heavenly Pop Hit'", and many other individual tracks, but chiefly praised the album for its overall cohesion and consistency – signs of the Chills' evolution from "a first-rate singles band" to a fully formed artistic venture with a "mature, restrained and affectingly personal approach".In his book "", musician and critic Scott Miller calls it "a dynamite whole album", and "the international star and culmination of" the Dunedin sound.