Aftenposten called
Light and Shade "one of the best records by Norwegian performers I have ever heard". Several songs were classics. The album also received positive reviews with 4 stars in
Bergens Arbeiderblad and
Tønsbergs Blad, and elsewhere in
Stavanger Aftenblad,
Fædrelandsvennen and
Fredriksstad Blad. According to
Bergens Tidende, it was "good pop", but "boring". The band would "thoroughly fall through with his product".
Adresseavisen found the band "more boring than on
Songs".
Nordlandsposten gave 2 1/2 stars, asking if this was "the disappointment of the year?" and with "not a single hit song".
Østlendingen only gave 2 stars, calling the music "bottom of the barrel". In the Norwegian
music press,
Kjetil Rolness called the album "a blurred-out copy of American mainstream music", with "too weak tunes". Eirik Mosveen of
Beat characterized the album as "almost unbelieveably boring", with a passive and limp soundscape, "anonymous" songwriting and the vocals being a "monotonous, lifeless manifestation of nothing". of
Puls magazine stated that "
Light and Shade' is lost in a no-man's land of toothlessness". The songwriting, arrangements, musicianship, lyrics and vocals were all "indifferent". ==Charts and awards==