James Christopher Monger of Allmusic described it as a "nice, emotive moment" in comparison to other tracks in the mid-point of Come to the Well that he felt were "tacked on".
He now records and tours the world with his own, much acclaimed band The Spaceheads, where his unique sound and melodic sense are complemented by the emotive rhythms of drummer Richard Harrison.
In 2005, at a special ceili in the Great Hall of Stormont Parliament Building, hosted by Tommy Sands of Downtown Radio, David Ervine sang "Leaving Dalriada", an emotive ballad written by Brian Ervine, about an exile who was ordered to leave the country by a gunman.
Deadly Circus Fire have performed at the Hammerfest on 17 March 2011 and at the Bloodstock Open Air Metal Festival on the Sophie Lancaster stage on 13 August 2011, where although the band was hugely delayed by technical faults they turned their near-disaster into soundscaped triumph with an emotive display of showmanship and musical ability.
The Museum contains a wealth of emotive memorabilia of the period and copies of the translations of Williams’ seminal work, Capitalism and Slavery, into seven languages, Russian, Chinese and Japanese 1968, 2004 among them.
However, the provincial impetus was also strong, as is demonstrated in his emotive work at the Sacro Monte of Varallo.
There is another series of frescoes of great emotive and narrative quality, representing Jesus among the Doctors, the Baptism, the Virgin and Child Enthroned, Saint Catherine of Alexandria upon the Wheel, Saint Martin and the Pauper, Jesus entering Jerusalem, and the Miracle of the reanimation of Napoleone Orsini by Saint Dominic, showing the young man falling from his horse.
Just prior to the 2004 Presidential Election, the band released Emotive, a collection of political war cover songs, which contained "Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums", which was a reinterpretation of the track "Pet", and a remix album titled Amotion, which contained remixed versions of the tracks across their three albums, including the three singles from Thirteenth Step.
Giving it a "B+", Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly praised Sears' "emotive" voice, comparing her favorably to Reba McEntire and Shelby Lynne.