It's terribly easy to put ["Carly Simon"] on once, decide that it's very pleasant, and then forget it. Unlike [Laura] Nyro, Simon doesn't have any immediately identifiable trademark which gets the ear hooked straight away. What's so good about her, then?… [She] writes songs of an unassuming excellence. Take the opening cut, "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be."… [It's] so honest and unfashionable that it has to be autobiographical, and it's one of the most piquant love songs I've heard in ages…. [There's] enough in the other songs to suggest that Carly Simon will become a major force. She's possessed by that valuable ability to articulate the personal and, in the process, convert it into the universal.