For this listener, the biggest problem with the album is a more mundane one - there's too much religious content. The inside lists musicians and the production crew and that's it except for the track listing on the back. The arrangements are mostly quiet and acoustic and even when strings are added they're not overwhelming. Gather Me was Melanie's first album on the Neighborhood label which was founded by herself with her husband and manager Peter Schekeryk (to whom she stayed married until his death in 2010). To his credit, label head Neil Bogart promoted her relentlessly and also left her style be her own rather than trying to make her a bubblegum princess.

Allmusic stated that the album "is one of her most accomplished and confident albums, a set that allowed Melanie the room to indulge her lyrical obsessions while Schekeryk created superb musical accompaniment from her simple but forceful melodies. I'm convinced it's a bit of a mickey-take - a metaphor has to make sense on one or both levels, but this can only be read (with difficulty) as, nothing more and nothing less than, a "hymn" to a night on the town. Though she would release six more albums through 1976, this would be her peak on the radio and record charts.

The whole album presents a grown up Melanie with a interestingly wide range of material and the same intensity that marked her earlier albums and along with her sincerity was a defining characteristic.

After I finish recording, I never listened back maybe if I had I might’ve known but I was on to the next thing I was working on. As for the tracks, they are fun, light and gentle, but underneath, there are some serious messages she is trying to get across. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.It opens with Little Bit of Me a sincere explanation of why she can't be constantly touring and recording. If Melanie has always been anxious not to be defined by her religious affiliation (which has changed over the years), and in later years has regarded herself as a secular humanist first and foremost, you'd never know it from listening to this!