Greg Phillips from Australian Musician said "[Night Shade] is a blend of many styles and sounds, from trippy Doors-like psychedelia and ambient, spacious ballads to 70s style jams, atmospheric guitar noise, jazz influenced vocal deliveries and a modicum of the Lanie Lane we already knew. It would be easy to label the album as a bold musical statement, purposely created to lay to rest any pigeon-holing from the past, however, that wasn't Lanie’s intention and is not how she views the experience."
