standing at the bottom of a flight of stairs, with light emanating from a doorway behind her. The background shows industrial pipes pumping out smoke as Carnes looks into the distance. The image was taken by Aaron Rapoport on February 13, 1982. Release and promotion Voyeur was released on September 8, 1982, through EMI America. The label released a "talking press kit" to college radio and rural newspapers. It consisted of a 16-minute interview between Carnes and artist development director Clay Baxter, and featured an assortment of photographs. EMI planned a feature-length video of the entire album, directed by Russel Mulcahy, and filmed in London, but the project was untimately cancelled. "Voyeur" was released as the lead single in August 1982. It spent a total of twelve weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at no. 29 for four weeks. Russel Mulcahy directed the song's accompanying music video. MTV would not broadcast it during daytime due to the video's depiction of domestic violence. "Voyeur" charted in several European countries, peaking highest in Norway at no. 5. "Does It Make You Remember" was released as the album's second single in October 1982, with an accompanying video directed by Simon Milne. It reached no. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Breakin' Away from Sanity", "Undertow" and "Take It on the Chin" were released as singles in select territories but none charted. Mulcahy directed another video for "Say You Don't Know Me", but the song was not released as a single. Critical reception Billboard noted that Voyeur takes upon "even more of a rock edge" than Mistaken Identity and serves as a "worthy follow-up" to Carnes' previous album. The Windsor Star echoed similar sentiments, describing Voyeur as "a more cohesive statement" that "refines the silky electronic sound" of Mistaken Identity. In the New York Daily News, Hugh Wyatt wrote that Voyeur represents "a departure from [Carnes'] previous middle-of-the-road pop works". Jack Lloyd of The Philadelphia Inquirer described the album as "probably a better, more well-rounded album than Mistaken Identity" featuring "plenty of solid tunes [with a] hard-rock edge". People magazine described Voyeur as an album of "energetic pop rock tunes" with Carnes' "often magnetizing" vocals and "clever" lyrics. In the Ottawa Citizen, Bill Provick described Voyeur as "tougher, more hard edged and less mainstream" than All Four One by the Motels, another album produced by Val Garay earlier in the year. Provick