"Ultimately, it only makes sense for Girl in Red to grow, and to grow in the direction of the music industry's current source of heat and light. The greatest progression here seems not to be from the ramshackle pop of Girl in Red's GarageBand days to this sleek, arena-ready iteration, but in the assurance of the change. Where before there was a too-raw frailty to some of Ulven's music, now she has hit a bold, gleeful stride in which diaristic splurge has become writing; and music, not merely a vector for venting, but a place in which to tame noise into sounds that benefit her".