Bruce Eder of AllMusic gave the album a combined assessment mocking the quilt as, “an ornamental image of the duo (much like a commencement picture)”, additionally calling it very MOR, aside 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 satisfactory than the opposite songs on the album, regardless of including their prior album to their record of the five hundred best albums of all time. In addition they proclaimed that, “the Carpenters have extra going for them than in opposition to.”
