The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best World Music Album at the 39th Annual Grammy Awards in 1997, but lost out to The Chieftains' album "Santiago". In December 1996, "Billboard" ranked it at number 15 in their list of the "Top World Music Albums" of 1996. "Mojo" magazine ranked it at number 21 in their list of the top 40 albums of 1996. Eyre also noted that the album was also influential on Real World Records, helping "establish something of a tradition" for the label's crossover projects, due to the "dreamy, atmospheric keyboards and guitars, simple, mid-tempo rhythms, and a kind of low-key understatement" to the album. In 1997, Real World Records released a remix album of the duo's work, "Star Rise", which featured five tracks from "Night Song" and four tracks from "Mustt Mustt" remixed by several prominent dubtronica musicians. The remix of "Sweet Pain" from the album was released as a twelve-inch single by Virgin Records in 1997 to promote the album. Real World Records re-released "Night Song" with slightly modified artwork on 4 May 2015 as part of their "Real World Gold" series, a series which "peels back the years to revisit and re-evaluate some most inspirational and beautiful music from the archives" of Real World Records." The label said that, "as the name suggests, it's a programme of reissues that brings some of the key Real World releases back into the sunlight as many titles have been unavailable for a number of years."<ref name="https://realworldrecords.com/gold"/>