[7] PopMatters's Ian King has stated that the record "takes Throbbing Gristle’s abrasiveness, throws it in a pressure cooker with the cold, old-tech repetition of the Normal, and then slices through it all with lashing guitar distortion,"[8] while Raymond Cummings of Spin described it as "an inchoate stutter-shove equal parts post-punk and first-album Suicide with a pinch of debilitating noise tossed in for good measure.

[10] Dave Cantor of Paste stated that "the furious yowling on each track off Uniform’s Perfect World belies some pretty arresting compositional finery."

"[7] Pitchfork's Andy O'Connor wrote: "Perfect World's six songs work within the limits of hardcore and industrial to create a monolithic record that manages to slyly underminine its central thrust.

"[8] Spin's Raymond Cummings thought that "the duo leaven Perfect World's miserablism with just enough smeared hooks and doom-metal licks to make converts of the underground faithful and the casual headbanger; as tortured triumphs go, this debut is a doozy.

"[6] Brendan Telford of The Quietus wrote: "The album kicks against the pricks only because it's what it is used to, programmed to, expected to do - but underneath the scuzzed squalls are souls filleted by raw emotion, rough circumstance, riled ambiguity and ritualistic hearsay.