Rhian Daly of NME called the album "nothing short of electric" with "discordant layers viscerally reflect[ing] the album's emotions of feeling out of place and its eventual message" that "rewards repeat and close listens, each track full of little details that elevate each go round".[2] Maura Johnston of Rolling Stone described it as "psychedelia-tinged and soulful, its lyrics' intense self-interrogation balanced by music that feels like an invite to further explorations".[3] Both Rolling Stone and Billboard Magazine listed the album as one of the 50 Best Albums of 2024 So Far, with Billboard writing "RM simply refuses to acknowledge the existence of any such boundaries over these 34 minutes, with 11 songs that careen from hip-hop to jazz to punk to R&B to Fela Kuti-styled Afrobeats — while all still sounding like a coherent and natural artistic extension of one man’s creative vision" and compared him to genreless artists like Tyler the Creator.[4][5]
The album debuted at number two on the South Korean Circle Album Chart with over 585,000 copies sold of its two versions.[6] It also debuted at number two on the Japanese Oricon Albums Chart with over 23,000 sales.[7]