The album consists of eight tracks with a total runtime of approximately forty-two minutes, each song ranging between three and six minutes. It incorporates elements of folk and ambient music.[1] Released five years after Gooch's 2020 debut EP, Rushing, the album features the lead single, "Like Clay", which was released on 4 March 2025.[2]
AllMusic's Paul Simpson described the album as "a more fleshed-out expansion of her sound, incorporating more acoustic instrumentation as well as more complex choral harmonies."[3]
Rob Hughes of Uncut rated the album eight out of ten and stated, "Lucy Gooch's early life as a chorister feeds into Desert Window's beauteous soundscapes, looping her gentle soprano voice over gauzy layers of synths in a seamless shift of classical, ambient, jazz and dream-folk textures."[4]
The Line of Best Fit assigned a rating of seven out of ten to the album and described it as "a masterclass in atmospheric tension and release, a record that feels both ancient and contemporary, grounded and otherworldly."[1]
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