 As of February 2018, it is the top rated album of the entire twenty-first century on the progressive rock database Prog Archives, with an average user rating of more than 4.5 from more than 250 ratings, and the website's fifteenth-highest rated album of all time.It also appeared in the top 40 albums of the year on the user ratings website Rate Your Music, being the highest-ranked progressive rock album on the list.Although the album's niche genre resulted in limited exposure in some parts of the music press, it received reviews ranging from favourable to rapturous on Angry Metal Guy, The Prog Space, Prog Report, Prog Radar, Team Rock, and many others; Sonic Perspectives and The Fire Note ranked it as the best progressive rock album of the year, while the Norwegian website Evig lyttar ranked it as the best Norwegian album of the year.