In this, the band found approval with critics who appreciated their faithfulness to the music of the era: Toronto's "Eye Weekly" said that "unlike many of their contemporaries, they have a reverence for properly constructed songs", and similarly, Charles Taylor, in "The Boston Phoenix", remarked that "What distinguishes the album from a shopping list of mid-'60s cool is the enormous affection de Maré and Virgo conjure up for the period they invoke. It's the lack of irony or distance in that affection that are the key to understanding this band."