Professional music critics at the time of release and afterwards have been mostly positive towards the album. Richard Cook of "NME" called "Synchronicity" "a record of real passion that is impossible to truly decipher", and felt that "although album magnifies the difference between Sting and Summers and Copeland it also evolves the group into a unique state: a mega-band playing off glittering experimentation against the sounding board of a giant audience. It's the sound of a group coming apart and coming together, a widescreen drama with a fascination at a molecular level. Some of the music fuses intuitive pop genius with willfully dense orchestration so powerfully it stuns. It is occasionally sensational."