Bruce Eder of AllMusic gave the album a blended overview mocking the duvet as, “an ornamental image of the duo (just like a commencement picture)”, additionally calling it very MOR, apart from “Famous person”. 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 enough than the opposite songs on the album, regardless of including their prior album to their record of the five hundred biggest albums of all time. Additionally they proclaimed that, “the Carpenters have extra going for them than towards.”
