[5] Tom Breihan of Pitchfork called Rain in England "an album of quasi-rap spoken-word over self-produced music even more ambient than the spaced-out, lo-fi synth landscapes he usually raps over".

[11] Nitsuh Abebe wrote in Pitchfork's "Why We Fight" column that the album is "beatless washes of new-agey synths with Lil B flowing over them more like the host of a self-hypnosis tape than a rapper.

[...] So much indie hiphop [sic] tries to challenge mainstream orthodoxy through a cryptic acceleration of thought and voice [...] but Lil B's slower, more ruminative delivery here feels far braver for being more exposed and vulnerable.

"[10] A positive review in Vice called Lil B "the most revolutionary MC of the last 15 years," but said Rain in England is not a good starting point for people new to his music because the album is "a bit too raw for most life forms to process".

He has ideas about what the creation of spoken word poetry and ambient music entails but it's quite clear he hasn't taken a ton of time to study those forms.

"[20] David Morris of Tiny Mix Tapes said that although the album is "conceptually daring" and a showcase for Lil B's "poetic, philosophical streak", he called the musical backing "utter garbage" and "pure, unstructured noodling".

[21] The Quietus praised the album as "baffling, flawed but utterly engrossing", and said Lil B's flow is "more measured but no less dexterous than his contemporaries, and the pace of his eloquent, brooding verses lend themselves well to the alien, frosted glass synth sounds and syrupy electronics that form the majority of the backing tracks here.

Hip hop writer Andrew Nosnitsky remarked in The Wire that Lil B was likely the only rapper who could pull off both an ambient release on Weird Forest and a collaboration with Soulja Boy in the same year.

[23] The San Francisco Bay Guardian said the album demonstrated Lil B's unpredictability;[24] similarly, SF Weekly called it "a different beast entirely" from the rest of his work.

[25] In Seattle Weekly, Eric Grandy called Rain in England an "oddity" and said Lil B's music is better served by randomly listening to him on YouTube then in a long-form album format.

[28] Rob Sevier, co-founder of the label The Numero Group,[29] and Games, a collaboration between Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) and Joel Ford, named Rain in England one of their favorite albums of the year.

"[35] Portland-based producer E*Rock adapted a transcript of the lecture into an ambient music piece with a synthesized voice, and the result was compared to Rain in England.