The Guardian reviewer wrote that “after descending into a personal hell of booze, drugs and giving up music for waiting tables, the Coloradan has emerged with a colossus. Backed by superfans Midlake, these are songs of impossible love, near-suicide and redemption, with an air of vastness and contemplation recalling Dennis Wilson’s masterpiece, Pacific Ocean Blue.” In The Independent, Andy Gill, wrote of the album: “a near-perfect marriage of his warm baritone with their lush woodwind and keyboard textures, bring to tender life Grant’s tales of growing up gay in the midwest.”