“If Wishbone Ash can be considered a group who dabbled in the main strains of early-’70s British rock without ever settling on one, the confusion compounded by their relative facelessness and the generic nature of their compositions, ‘Argus’, their third album, was the one on which they looked like they finally were going to forge their own unique amalgamation of all those styles into a sound of their own. Argus was a bigger hit in the U.K., where it reached the Top Five, than in the U.S., where it set up the commercial breakthrough enjoyed by the band’s next album but over the years it came to be seen as the quintessential Wishbone Ash recording, the one that best realized the group’s complex vision.” - William Ruhlmann, AllMusic