	John Fordham of "The Guardian" rated "Kindred Spirits" 4/5 and called the album "..a varied and widely appealing set..." Martin Longley of "BBC Music" called the album "A set melding its varied constituents into a deeply personal final form." "ABC Online" said of the album, it "stretches from ballads to McCoy Tyner-like muscularity and even a version of Contusion."