Belgian Ultratop Flanders Chart, it reached number 182. Prior to the album's release, Williams listed tour dates for March and April 2018 in the UK, Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. He also announced a tour in America and Canada for March 2019 in support of the album. Music videos for "Catch the Loop" and "Salaam" were released, both directed and filmed by Greg Barnes. After he and Williams worked together on "Catch the Loop", they saw The Return as "the soundtrack to an unmade, and epic film". The next video "Salaam" was filmed in Marrakech, Morocco in two days. Williams said: Reception The Return was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 77, based on 9 reviews. Critics praised The Return for its recreation of jazz and funk sounds of the 1970s, where Piotor Orlov of NPR writes: "Surrounded by a music scene constantly looking to invoke far-off traditions or break historically new ground, its goals seem comparatively conservative." Dean van Nguyen of Pitchfork commented that "while Dayes' rasping drumming is missed, newly recruited percussionist MckNasty offers his own urbane rhythms." He continued that Williams "present[s] himself as belonging to the same continuum as Yussef Kamaal while establishing himself as a solo artist[…] Yet The Return does even more". Will Hodgkinson writes that The Return "can dissolve into fiddly muso abstraction — the guitar solo on LDN Shuffle seems to be an attempt to play as many notes as possible — but with the gloriously bouncy Salaam and the space-age Aisha[…] this is ideal jazz for a summer's day." Critics questioned the short lengths "Rhythm Commission" and the title track, with Nguyen stating that "there was room for this album to grow." Ben Devlin of MusicOMH wrote that the track "'LDN Shuffle' never quite justifies its own existence over its five-and-a-half minute run-time, but such noodling can be forgiven to an extent on an album that is more about groove than melody". Accolades The Return appeared on numerous year-end lists in 2018. Bleep ranked The Return at number 6 on its year end list, with the staff commending its "rich tapestry of visionary jazz woven together with the sounds and signals of South London Streets" and called it "one of the most exciting musical movements 2018