"Divorced from the rest of the project, it does occasionally feel like Escapology is lacking a crucial accompaniment, but that's probably fair enough - after all, it is. In its full form, Astro Darien is partly about an imagined off-world colony designed as a way of allowing pro-independence Scottish radicals to escape British unionism, and the flickers of newsreader-style vocal sampling that allude to this throughout the album offer a tantalising glimpse into the wider network of ideas which Goodman is playing around with here".