Circuladô

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[12]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[13]
MusicHound World: The Essential Album Guide	[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[11]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	8/10[4]

The New York Times praised the "mixture of pointed observation and fatalistic acceptance [that] typifies Mr. Veloso's world view... More than a diarist or a social commentator, at his best he is a true poet."^[14] Newsday called "Santa Clara, Padroeira da Televisão" "a stunning, satirical blend of spiritual imagery and media criticism."^[8]

The Edmonton Journal wrote that "the music on Circulado takes an impressionistic course that's more quietly experimental, working touches of jazz improvisation among the guitar and percussion lines."^[10] The Gazette stated that "there is folk, jazz, samba, bossa nova, new age and funk all rolled into one... Sensuous and seductive, the spirit of tropicalismo is alive and well."^[15]

AllMusic wrote that "Itapuã" "is a modern elegy for the beautiful beach, where Veloso is backed by a contemporary arrangement for string quartet and rhythmic section."^[12] Stephen Holden, of The New York Times, listed Circuladô as the second best album of 1992.^[16]

In 2022, it was elected as one of the best Brazilian music albums of the last 40 years by a O Globo poll which involved 25 specialists, including Charles Gavin, Nelson Motta, and others.^[17]