The album was streamed on The Guardian's website ahead of its release.[2] Sam Bennett of Clash magazine gave the album a positive review, describing it as "an impressive performance from a singer still riding high",[3] while April Clare Welsh of The Quietus wrote in contrast that "for all the show's heft as an epochal, history-making-moment-in-time, and Kelis as an incredible, inimitable and malleable performer, I guess you really had to have been there."[4]
