Wrapped in Sky

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Calgary Herald	[11]
Chicago Tribune	[5]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[12]
Los Angeles Times	[13]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[7]

No Depression wrote that "the songs run toward character sketches, conveyed at ballad tempo with careful restraint."^[14] Trouser Press determined that Wrapped in Sky captures the band's "broad stylistic ambitions better than on any other album," writing that "adjunct keyboardist Joey Huffman's textures are a valuable new contribution."^[15] The Calgary Herald concluded that the album "drifts by, pleasant but its purpose, its passion, its very drive somehow lost along the way."^[11] The Post and Courier labeled it "an album that often seems a dippy Dylanesque joke."^[16]

The Washington Post thought that, "though the songs are well-crafted and the sound is well realized ... the overall effect is not exactly organic."^[17] The Los Angeles Times stated that it "brims with music that's blissfully melodic (never cloying) and often quite fiery."^[13] The Sun-Sentinel conceded that, while singer Kevin Kinney "doesn't have one of the best voices around, he certainly has one of the most earnest."^[18] The Record lamented that "Kinney's wet-noodle vocals and high-falutin' lyrics tend to drag down his band's musical charms."^[19]

AllMusic called Wrapped in Sky "the most overlooked and underrated of the Southern rock band's albums," writing that "Saving Grace" "is an untraditional gem of a power ballad."^[1]