Joshua Kahn of Clash Music scored this release an 8 out of 10, stating that "Deep Sage is more stylistically varied than [2018 album] Burnt Sugar but it never decays" and as "an exercise in sonic pleasures", "it is violent, gorgeous, and unafraid" and belongs "in a pocket somewhere next to your heart".

[2] Editors at Pitchfork scored this release 7.5 out of 10 and critic Colin Joyce characterized the approach as the band "fuses urgent post-hardcore with softer strains of shoegaze and grunge to unlock a new power of restraint" to "pursue new directions primarily in service of increasing their overall intensity".

[3] Deep Sage scored a 9 out of 10 from PopMatters' Brian Stout who called it the band's best and "an early contender for the best hardcore record of 2024" with "heavy hooks that recall 1990s alternative greats" and lyrics that are "more introspective, resulting from self-care and self-reflection".

[4] Steve Erickson of Slant Magazine found the lyrics to be the weakest part of the album along with the production by Jack Shirley, but the instrumentation displays strong arrangements "with curlicue guitar riffs and vocal fluctuations intended to disrupt a song's mood", resulting in 3 out of 5 stars.

[6] All songs written by Tommy Cantwell, Dylan Downey, Mick Ford, Tyler Forsythe, and Christina Michelle Gouge Away Additional personnel