"While, at just short of 50 minutes, Tribute is concise by the early-2010s standard, its unflagging succession of belters is both impressive and fatiguing, delivered with a supreme level of grieving conviction and hefty productions seemingly designed for the sake of filling stadiums and megachurches. In small doses, Newman's work here provides quite an impassioned jolt, but as the songs continue to chug and careen, it begins to sound more like a bludgeoning, or an elaborate, combative response to being asked to tone it down a little".