Indeed, the album's best moments mix equally vast amounts of noise and space, giving Dilate an appropriately expansive feel.

"[10] In a similarly positive review, Billboard magazine noted that the album "has more in common with avant-jazz and contemporary classical than with most heavy rock" & called it "out of step with today's reigning popular culture".

In the end, you gleefully submit to random moments of extreme-pressure heaviosity like ‘Sunrise’: vocalist Isobel Sollenberger repeatedly sighing “Watch it haaaappen” like the millennial Grace Slick of non sequiturs she unquestionably is.

"[12] "While it isn't quite as glorious as Lapsed, Dilate does offer a good deal of interesting material" wrote Brendan Reid of Pitchfork, who noted the album's "looser, more spontaneous feel" & praised the band's risk-taking.

"[14] "Equal parts spaced-out folk, riff-heavy psychedelia, and ambient experimentation," wrote Lawrence Daniel Caswell for Cleveland Scene, "Dilate surpasses Bardo Pond's earlier albums in both beauty and scope and, without resorting to mere studio trickery, features the kind of attention to sonic detail that too few guitar-based groups attempt these days.