Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Q | |
| Rolling Stone | (favorable) |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | |
Rolling Stone gave the album a positive review, praising Genesis for being both more experimental and more steeped in conventional rock than their progressive rock contemporaries. They made particular note of "Your Own Special Way", calling it "a first-rate pop song".
In a retrospective review, Allmusic similarly made note of "Your Own Special Way", calling it "the first that could qualify as a love song", dismissing earlier attempts such as "The Silent Sun" and "More Fool Me". Their reaction to Wind & Wuthering as a whole was mild, describing it as an album in "the same English eccentric ground that was the group's stock in trade since Trespass", albeit an above average example.
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