[3] Upon its release, Pomme Fritz reached number six on the UK Albums Chart, but divided fans and critics, with some panning it as "doodling" and noting its absence of focus.

"[7] Recorded in London and Berlin from 1993 to 1994 using an expensive budget on behalf of Island,[8][3] Pomme Fritz was produced with ADAT (Alesis Digital Audio Tape), and group leader Alex Paterson also believes it to be the first Orb album to use ProTools, which was operated on a Mac.

"[17][14] Opening track "Pomme Fritz (Meat 'N Veg)" is reminiscent of krautrock and is constructed around chimes with overlapping elliptical guitar and low frequency bass figures.

[14][11] "Bang 'er 'N' Chips" features shuffling beats,[11] surrealist 'sound bytes' and "calliope keyboards," curating what one critic described as a "sinister carnival romp.

"[14] "Alles Ist Schoen" features ambient grooves,[16] while the closing track "His Immortal Logness" is a simplistic, childlike tune that displays the group's "optimistic edge" within its organ motif, which surfaces in synth parts during "teeming noise pastiches.

[22] According to one writer: "The remixes here, including a typically fluid reinterpretation by Thomas Fehlmann, provide further genetic mutations of Pomme Fritz's strange lifeforms.

[17] Jon Wiederhorn of Rolling Stone described the album as an "aural feast," and felt that the Orb "inspire awe by splashing a profusion of unfocused noises and samples across a grid of billowing, textured synth lines," instead of "[engendering] hypnosis through minimalism and repetition" like other ambient groups.

[14] Pomme Fritz was picked as a "Staff Selection" in Spin, where Joe Stowe noted the "creepier" direction, "futzing and splooging everything from (what sounds like) Hindi ululations to the Nuremberg rally across six soundscapes to the extremely fugged of head.

"[29] Among retrospective reviews; Derek Walmsley of The Quietus felt the album was one of the Orb's "greatest achievements," describing it as a "concise yet bewilderingly multi-layered statement.

"[11] In The Rough Guide to Rock, Daniel Jacobs and David Wren chose Pomme Fritz as one of the Orb's best albums, calling it their "least ambient" record.

[16] "Weary of expectations to continue recording in the vein of 'Little Fluffy Clouds' and 'Blue Room', Pomme Fritz is the sound of The Orb testing the boundaries of electronica."

[31] Ambient producer Robert Rich is a fan of Pomme Fritz and cited it as one of several Orb albums where Paterson "breaks his own recipe.

"[32] In an interview with The Wire, Richard Norris of Psychic TV compared "We're Pastie to Be Grill You" to Brian Eno and the Residents, and its intro to Joe Meek's "I Hear a New World".