Bruce Eder of AllMusic gave the album a combined evaluate mocking the quilt as, “an ornamental image of the duo (just like a commencement picture)”, additionally calling it very MOR, aside from “Celebrity”. Equally, Rolling Stone known as the album “exceptionally sharp…MOR”, calling “Wet Days and Mondays”, “Let Me Be the One” and “(A Place to) Hideaway” as extra sufficient than the opposite songs on the album, regardless of including their prior album to their listing of the five hundred best albums of all time. Additionally they proclaimed that, “the Carpenters have extra going for them than towards.”
