"Our Love was Saved by Spacemen" was released as a viral video.

"Stop the Music," their official first single from the album, was released on 19 April 2010.

[3] In a review for AllMusic, critic reviewer Tim Sendra wrote: "Though almost nothing on the record will appeal to the people who liked their earlier work because of the girl group connection, fans of cotton-candied pop sung by girls who sound like they live on a diet of helium and gummy bears will find Earth vs. the Pipettes just about perfect.

In place of the sassy, empowered lyrics of We Are The Pipettes, we get cloying, clingy tales of pining sung over redundant disco beats.

"[6] At Slant Magazine, Jonathan Keefe explained that "there’s simply nothing about Earth vs. the Pipettes that's distinctive or in any way better than what other '80s revivalists have already done.