In an article for
NPR Music,
Kevin Whitehead noted that the musicians are "heedless of category, blending jazz, funk, R&B, rock and a little space music," and praised their "lively, rhythmic crosstalk." He wrote: "These days, a few top jazz guitarists demonstrate their restraint and good taste on record. So it's bracing to hear Vernon Reid crank it up to 11 and wail so often on the album."
The New York City Jazz Record's John Pietaro stated: "the new album... has impeccable sound, and the improvisations are muscular, melodic and beautifully head-arranged... the selections carry the ear through space and a sound-array of chromatic basslines and pained blues melodies snagged in a sound thicket... Ornette's spirit is never far off, wrapped in decades of voluminous, liberating music." David R. Adler of
Premier Guitar commented: "what explains FFFF's ability to create together on the fly is musical intelligence and empathetic listening." He described Reid's contribution as "an amalgam of raw, plugged-in lead guitar crunch and otherwordly sonic glitter: notes that start as notes but become starbursts, or decay like pyrotechnic embers; chordal shapes that overlap and gather into big nebulous clouds." ==Track listing==