 "Hit the North" is described by Ned Raggett at "AllMusic" as "one of the most musically conventional numbers the group had ever recorded, but it still contained enough driving bite and sass to rank as a worthy listen...[with its] endlessly chanted chorus ... becoming a catch phrase of its own... Smith's various chantings and semi-ravings, if buried in the mix at many points, still make everything sound uniquely and distinctly Fall.