James Hamilton of Record Mirror presented the album as being "as vigorously voiced and unsubtle as you'd expect". According to a reviewer of British magazine Music Week, the album proves Astley to be "a respectable if so far unexceptional writer", but concluded that the tone of the whole album is given by SAW's team.
A critic from British magazine Music Week described Astley as a decent but unstandout songwriter, while attributing the overall tone of the album to SAW's team.