David Briggs, hotpress.com: "While most of the next U2s were swiftly abandoned by their record companies, Hothouse Flowers escaped the dreaded drop by fashioning songs that not only sounded great on record but enabled O Maonlai and the band to stretch out on stage like no Irish band before them. This was Celtic soul music par excellence, and ‘Don’t Go’ is as potent today as it was in 1988."