Less favorably, John Bush of AllMusic believed "BWPS" was "a remarkably unified, irresistible piece of pop music", yet decreed that it was "no musical watershed on par with "Sgt. Pepper's" ... or Wilson's masterpiece, "Pet Sounds"". Writing in his 2005 book about "Smile", Domenic Priore opined, "The recording sessions for the album at Sunset Sound came and went very quickly, and the mix suffers because of this; the emphasis on bass is not what it should be, and the tracks should breathe more. Some felt that there was too much singing, compared with the instrumental texture of the original tapes."