"Sleepwalker" was lauded by Billy Altman of "Rolling Stone", who said, "The Kinks' playing on "Sleepwalker" is easily their most powerful since 'Lola'.In the UK, Allan Jones in "Melody Maker" praised the album, saying, that "Sleepwalker" "emphatically testifies to the dramatic artistic revival of Raymond Douglas Davies, whose supreme talents as a writer have been so distressingly overlooked during the first half of [the 1970s].