[2] Persona is also very similar to music of Senni's project Stargate, in that it includes influences of anime, cyberpunk and Japanese culture and uses melodic elements like "powerful" chords for "deep emotional resonance," journalist John Twells wrote.
[2] Twells compared the melodies of Persona to that of the works of composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and wrote that they "generate vivid landscapes that wouldn’t be out of place in Neo-Tokyo.
"[2] The sticker placed over Atkins' screenshot in the cover art replicates the colors of the stripes used by independent label Revelation Records, further adding to the EP's hardcore punk element.
[3][4][5] Pitchfork reviewer Andy Beta wrote that the tracks on Persona "revel and find depth in synthetic surfaces, make pop allusions, and simulate the maddening sensations that arise from the digital corporeality of our modern life.
[4] As SCVSCV writes, "Senni’s technical image management stems from a profound vitalism rooted in the distinct human need to zero-out from self-organizational processes to approach further repetition and abstraction — the organic gene splicing of music such that its conceptual and functional material are indistinguishable.
[4] SCVSCV also noted that the EP had a "deeply oscillating, emotional core [...[ that odd place of human vitality and sentiment in any scholarly, observational method.
[7] This is because it would take time for the listener to digest the "walloping chord stabs, popcorn-popping synth tones and comically bright melodies" that is present throughout the extended play.
[7] Persona opens with "Win In The Flat World," described by SCVSCV as an "ecstatic ballad that emerges with a pulsing core of optimistic melody — simultaneously extending and quickening its form to where the narrative time of trance’s usual formula is flattened.
"[4] Fallon labeled the song "Rave Voyeur" as a "diamond-cut alloy of euphoria, chugging rhythm, harmonic elegance and hyperreal sound design.
[7][6] A reviewer for the Italian magazine Salad.Days described the tracks as "really wonderful, vischiosissime, valuable electronic [song]s that deserve[] to [put] Senni [on] a stage to large capacities.
"[1] SCVSCV, writing for Tiny Mix Tapes, honored Persona as "a work wholly deserving of such a major stage as an enduring effort to collapse and incisively observe the grisly scene of 2016 electronic music and its restless sonic constituency.