In the 1977 edition of their book "", Roy Carr and Tony Tyler described "Extra Texture" as "another lugubrious offering" and concluded: "the needle of the listener's personal Ecstatograph points sullenly towards zero throughout." Harrison's pleas for tolerance and understanding, like his self-deprecation on the album sleeve, seemed to backfire. Writing in 1981, Bob Woffinden found that the album showed signs that Harrison was "no longer so scornful of his audience" compared with "Dark Horse". Woffinden wrote of the songs that "plead plaintively with critics not to judge too severely": "In this different context, such pleas are more sympathetic. Very well, then, we will not. "Extra Texture" wasn't really very good musically ... but it did have some appealing qualities, and barely any disagreeable ones."