Spin (p.76) - "On this much-improved third album, synths swell, beats throb, and oceanic drones creep."

Magnet (p.55) - "[T]he Baltimore trio's nautically themes third album finds the band updating rather than simply recreating from the moment its opening seaside field recordings fade into the title track's deeply textured synths."

Uncut (magazine) (p.84) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "ON THE WATER flows confidently from the poignant simplicity of 'Where I Found You'...to the early New Order sounds of 'Before The Bridge'..."