Billboard described it as "a fun album, which admirably accomplished [Perrey's] stated purpose: to show that electronic music need not be esoteric. He utilizes tapes and various apparatus to accomplish this."[3] For the 1996 album reissue, the US magazine described the album as "a campy and entertaining 1968 solo project of synthesized blurps, bleats and solid-state noodling".[4]
AllMusic reviewer Richie Unterberger said that it "sounds like nothing so much as late-'60s instrumental 'mood' music albums as refracted through a slightly more ambitious, electronic lens. It's really not something you can put on again and again, but it's kind of fun nonetheless."[2]
"The Minuet of the Robots" was the soundtrack for the Muppet feature "Big Bird's Dance" on December 14, 1969, in The Ed Sullivan Show, accompanied by arrangements made by the CBS Studio Orchestra.[6] In 2010, "Brazilian Flower" was used in a soccer commercial.[7] Two pieces from this album were used in short films by David Lewandowski: Going to the Store from 2011 used "The Little Ships",[8] and Late for Meeting from 2013 used "The Mexican Cactus".[9]
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