[12] In Exclaim!, Angela Morrison gave Loom an 8 out of 10, calling it "a swirling mix of eerie atmosphere, devastating emotion and brilliant sonic abstraction" and "Gately's best work yet".

[8] Ben Devlin of musicOMH calls Loom "an intense record, full of feelings of loss, confusion and angst" and "an early contender for best electronic album of the year" that he gave 4 out of 5 stars.

[10] With a 7.7 out of 10, Shawn Reynaldo of Pitchfork Media writes that "the journey [Gately] takes is riveting" and the album's "success lies in the clarity of vision that she has found" in grief.

[11] Danijela Bočev of The Quietus wrote that "one of Gately’s greatest assets is the eagerness to creatively confront the dark matter of the psyche, lovingly provoking it out of the shady corners and playfully expose it in full elemental force" and that "crafts unique compositions for scoring the internal psychodrama, keeping ambition in her sound as ever delightfully larger than life".

[14] In The Sydney Morning Herald, Barnaby Smith rated this work 3.5 out of 5 stars, writing that "there is a warmth that Color arguably did not have, largely born of the more prominent, closely-recorded vocals, often layered, as on the choral-influenced 'Allay' and the extraordinary 'Bracer'".