Alexey Eremenko of AllMusic called the album one of the band's best, along with 1994's Mother, and referred to it as "hard rock without the machismo, sentimentality without the sappiness, and melody without the one-dimensional attitude of pop music."
Alexey Eremenko of AllMusic ranked this album among the band's top releases, comparable to 1994's Mother, praising it for being "rock without machismo, devoid of sentimentality, and filled with melody, free from the one-dimensional aspects found in pop music."