Writing in "The Village Voice" in January 1975, Robert Christgau bemoaned the album's "transubstantiations" and particularly derided the lyrics to "Māya Love", "in which 'window-pane' becomes 'window brain.' Can this mean that pain (pane, get it?) is the same as brain? For all this hoarse dork knows ..." Mike Jahn also provided a withering assessment in "High Fidelity", saying that the US Food and Drug Administration should arrest Harrison "for selling a sleeping pill without a prescription". Jahn added that only "Ding Dong, Ding Dong" registered with him after three listens, but only due to his incredulity at the lyrics.