On the topic of the album, Cub Koda wrote, "There's an innocence to these songs and their performances that's both charming and unsettling. Hacked-at drumbeats, whacked-around chords, songs that seem to have little or no meter to them ... being played on out-of-tune, pawn-shop-quality guitars all converge, creating dissonance and beauty, chaos and tranquility, causing any listener coming to this music to rearrange any pre-existing notions about the relationships between talent, originality, and ability. There is no album you might own that sounds "remotely" like this one." A 2017 review of their work in "The New Yorker" noted that, while Dot and Betty Wiggin had written out their songs and had musical chemistry, Helen, the drummer, was often completely detached from what her sisters were playing.