This song tries to get into that space we can all relate to but can't easily explain, when you are in the space between new love and heartbeat, kind of floating with no feelings left. Your body and spirit kind of raw from the extreme back and forth of emotions, on your way over that hill to the otherside where joy and normalcy sits. When I hear it I get very emotional. It puts me in those spaces, romantic nostalgia, loss of a loved one.
—Vocalist and lead songwriter Joe Vann on the meaning of album closer "Keep Me"[2]
Sunnyvale of Sputnikmusic rated this album 3.5 out of 5, calling it "an album with a lot of great songs" that improves upon the 2019 release Dimly Lit, but ultimately "a mild disappointment in its role as From Indian Lakes' long-awaited return".[3] Editors at Stereogum chose this as Album of the Week and critic Chris DeVille emphasized the listening experience of being overwhelmed by the drones and rhythms in the music, combined with language that "is poetic and thought-provoking, not opaque but leaving much to the imagination".[4]
Staff at Consequence of Sound included this among the best albums of May, with Paolo Ragusa writing that "it sounds like mastery.".[5]
