[5] Maximumrocknroll included Napalm Dream in their "The Best Of The 2010s" feature; adding: "...Tenement is not only the most creative and enduring band of that moment, but also transcends any reductive reading as ’Mats revival” (or whatever).

"[6] English rock band Martha covered "Dreaming Out Loud" as a b-side to their 2022 Dirtnap Records single, "Beat Perpetual".

In a 2014 "Songs Of The Week" feature for ESPN 's Grantland, music critic Steven Hyden reveals that he'd just discovered Napalm Dream which he describes as "really great in-the-red pop-punk in the vein of Hüsker Dü and the Descendents" adding: "I’m an idiot because I was asleep until now.

"[9] Chicago Reader called Napalm Dream "perfected fuzzy midwestern pop punk" and claimed it to be "following in the hardcore-inflected, catchy-as-hell footsteps of Screeching Weasel and Naked Raygun".

[10] NME referred to Napalm Dream as a "Blinding Husker-Du-via-Green-Day pop punk LP" and stated that Tenement turned "witnesses into evangelists" on the national tour following its release.