 Though he complained about the production, finding Wood's voice to be deliberately "often almost drowned by the instruments," he felt the musicianship was impressive and that the album was easy to admire considering the "ingenuity and sheer hard graft" required to make it.Dave Lewis of the "Acton Gazette" found "Boulders" to be "no musical masterpiece, but an enjoyable pantomime of different styles, with Wood playing all the roles," while Gary Sperrazza of the "Shakin' Street Gazette" felt that it spotlighted Wood's "highly distinctive style of music," concluding that the album "stands alone in its own sphere as a bonafide masterpiece.