Mats Gustaffson at his blog, The Broken Face, wrote on January 15, 2008:

One can probably argue that being a regular contributor to Deep Water Publications makes it a bit difficult to review releases from their sonic brother, Deep Water Sonic Productions. But then on the other hand, this is not exactly the Rolling Stone we’re talking about so who can honestly say that they give a shit? And when something is as great as Anvil Salute’s This Is the Voice of Doom Calling I am not the one that’s going to shut up. This latest offering from Norman, Oklahoma’s finest is a nearly perfect slab of naturally evolving folk that might be too focused for some of the free folk fans out there and too fucked-up for the majority of the folk rock gang. I am not sure that’s why this band’s far-reaching meditative ambitions haven’t reached out all the way yet or not, but I do know that this inexcusable fact has to change. Free jazz inspirations work like ghost-like shadows that come in and out of the folky mix and there’s also a stunning angularity to some of these tracks that has me thinking about Velvet Underground. But the overall feel is definitely the one of cyclical music that is mesmerizing and hypnotic without being as primitive as many of the contemporaries. Beauty and inspiration rain down like manna in these instrumental folk sessions, recordings both wonderfully focused and distilled, yet free.