Matthew Greenwald of Allmusic praised the narrative as "brilliant" and carried by "an expansive melody and epic performance from the entire band."

She also picked up an ear for expansive melodies and a willingness to confess all the ways she has been buffeted by desire.

The songs drift into their troubled reflections, then rise above them with expansive melodies.

Yet in providing music for this audacious character, Massenet is seldom willing to disrupt the agreeable flow of dusky, expansive melody.

The songs channel his turmoil into surging guitars and expansive melodies.

A basic rhythmic unit, instead of becoming the foundation of an expansive Romantic melody, now becomes a stark end-product in itself.

But at least one of the new songs - "Black Widow's Eyes," about Stockholm syndrome - had both expansive melodies and a gathering suspense.

The self-conscious melodramas of emo turn into surging, expansive melodies in the songs of Hey Mercedes.

An expansive melody with syncopated left-hand accompaniment leads into a middle section in which a dolcissimo theme metamorphoses into bursts of passion.

Cave In reaches back to psychedelia for ringing guitars and expansive melodies, adding its own kind of emotional turbulence.