Writing for "Rolling Stone" in 2002, Mikal Gilmore commented that "the crises faced in the mid-1970s changed him", and that depression was a key factor. Depression permeated many of the songs that Harrison wrote during this period, an issue that was not helped by his continued heavy drinking and cocaine use. While viewing this mindset as an extension of the artist's "unholy coping mechanisms" over 1973–74, author Robert Rodriguez writes: "What's interesting is how he chose to address what he'd been grappling with, musically. In the end, "Extra Texture" is unique within the Harrison catalog as essentially an LP-length excursion into ."