[7] Pitchfork named it "Best New Music", with the site's reviewer Ian Cohen stating that while it "occasionally relents in tempo and density, it's extremely loud at all volumes, a force multiplier for the saddest secrets of its source material", additionally describing it as "towering shoegaze and supersized power-pop anthems".

[2] Mojo felt that "though Anderson buries his voice and words in the maelstrom, his declared (if not immediately apparent) theme of a constantly thwarted search for 'true love' seems right at home in shoegazing's characteristic marriage of bliss and anxiety".

[12] Craig Howieson of The Line of Best Fit summarized the album as "12 songs that are soft around the edges and wash over the listener in shades of sunset orange and pink, guitars morph and collapse in on themselves like the contents on a lava lamp".

[11] Paste's Andy Steiner wrote that it "takes all the texture of Nineteen's DIY-budget distortion and softens it without losing any of that growl or edge", calling it "a remarkable act of balance" as well as "not just a triumph for Anderson and Hotline TNT, but for shoegaze itself".

[10] Concluding a review for AllMusic, Matt Collar described the album as, "Cartwheel's sampler pack of destroyed guitar tones, powerful songwriting, and wafts of nostalgia for multiple eras of slowcore and shoegaze all contribute to its high replay value and overall captivating sound.