Accompanied with a visualizer, it was received positively by several publications, with several of them calling it the band's "most danceable track to date".

[1] Accompanied with a caption read on the Instagram post as "Wishing everyone out there love tonight", the band stated that it would appear on their then-untitled seventh studio album, serving as its lead single.

Upon release, several publications considered "Lemon Glow" to be Beach House's "most danceable track to date", including The Fader,[3] NME,[5] and Spin.

[7] Named as "Best New Track", Shaad D'Souza from Pitchfork described "Lemon Glow" as a "new direction for [Beach House], with subtle changes to their distinct sound that signal a sharpening of the band’s typically soft edges.

"[4] Lauren O'Neill from Vice considered that it is "a little more foreboding than [they're] used to from [Beach House]" but stated that it is "a great new twist on their sound".