Ned Raggett of AllMusic said that with Further, "the twosome achieved a new balance of delicacy and power, heightened in noticeable part by Pearce's increasingly assertive singing.

There's plenty of fingerpicked acoustic guitar amid the white-noise din, and the bassy pulse of analog noisemakers floats in and out, evoking the spaciness of early '70s synth music.

"[2] Opening track "Rainstorm Blues" features a roaring feedback squall that both ascends and descends in volume and gets further accompaniment from "hard-to-place crumbles and squeals, Brook's growling bass work setting the mood even stranger.

"[2] "To the Shore" is a "gnarly" instrumental that "moves from a cymbal tap to churning sonic violence and back to delicate acoustic guitar over the course of 12 minutes.

"[2] Upon its release, Simon Reynolds, writing for Melody Maker, gave Further a rave review and called it "the best pure-guitar LP since Royal Trux's Cats and Dogs.