"[3] Momus said its genre's most immediate source is British horror films of the early 1970s while tracing literary influences back to such writers as William Blake, Horace, John Milton, and Samuel Palmer.

[2][5] Songs from Bibliotek and from other 2000s albums Bambi, Glyptothek, and Turpsycore were recollected in the Cherry Red Records anthology Pubic Intellectual.

"[2] The Eclectic Collective said "[Bibliotek's] suggestions range from soft horror movies to unhealthy b-movies atmospheres, with morbid pastoral landscapes.

"[4] PopMatters's Brice Ezell reviewed the album favorably stating "Bibliotek, his twenty-somethingth release, is as obtuse as anything he's put out before.

"[7] Reviewing the Cherry Red Records anthology Pubic Intellectual, Ezell described the music as "forlorn lyrics and minor-key melancholy [...] are compelling even in Momus' low-key style.