[15] Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated that, "Compared to Pure Comedy... God's Favorite Customer feels light and breezy.

Father John Misty never makes a move that isn't considered, and God's Favorite Customer is designed to be the digestif after a multi-course feast: a palette cleanser that riffs upon the flavors lingering on the tongue.

[17] Similarly Robin Murray wrote for NME that "in remaining tight-lipped, this taciturn new aspect to Father John Misty might be his most genuinely sincere, and his most profound".

[1] Writing for Rolling Stone, David Fricke compared the album to the works of John Lennon in the 1970s, concluding that "What lifts God's Favorite Customer beyond homage is Tillman's slicing, free-associative candor as he examines the cost in sanity and constancy of his craft and touring life".

[5] Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly felt that in its best moments, the album shows Tillman to be a "master of classic melody, even if the source is meta, and something like a true poet when he wants to be".