Reception
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
While noting that there are occasional highlights, Allmusic's retrospective review was generally negative, calling the album "pleasant, well-sung, and well-played, but basically bland". They particularly criticized the selection of material and the overt similarity of the album's formula to that of previous Carpenters albums.
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