The March 2010 issue of Mojo Magazine reviewed Love Lost:

This is pretty exciting - the missing link between the False Start Love and early Arthur Lee solo material like Vindicator and the also unreleased Black Beauty. Recorded in 1971, this putative major label debut is the seedbed for those later two records but superior to both in its loose energy. Mixing acoustic demos with spirited riff-rock work-outs - including Craig Tarwater from the Sons Of Adam, famed for their killer cover of Lee's “Feathered Fish” - Love Lost plays very well. Only occasionally does it verge on the wilful sloppiness that apparently sabotaged the project. But songs like “He Said She Said” - with its lyrical reference to Vietnam - are worthy additions to the Love canon. As is the final track, “Trippin' And Slippin'/Ezy Rider”, which over six minutes inhabits the recently departed spirit of Jimi Hendrix. Well if anyone was entitled, Arthur Lee was.

-Jon Savage