"The performances smartly stick to rockers since the few ballads ("Guernica" and "No Hard Feelings"), while darkly tuneful, expose the limitations of Hunter's voice, now a shadow of his "All the Young Dudes" heyday. But give him credit for refusing to tweak it with electronic enhancers and writing some terrific tunes, which he attacks with more vigor than many a quarter of his age."

"To be fair, it's difficult to create an atmosphere of intimacy when so many musicians aren't physically present but rather sending their recorded parts (...). Nevertheless, in one way or another across the ten tracks (on Sun Records, no less), Hunter lifts himself above the merely prosaic in the company of his (mostly) well-known guests. Consequently, the presence of the various contributors neither distracts nor detracts from Ian Hunter's own indomitable spirit"