'The Celestials' employs all the elements that make a classic Pumpkins song, and is likely the best released under the name in over a decade.

Corgan caps off the tune by matching the line "Everything I want is free" with a beautifully reserved lead guitar riff.

"[3] RedEye favorably compared it to one of the band's biggest songs, "Disarm", from their album Siamese Dream, calling it a "...nod to the Pumpkins' past.

Its acoustic guitar and orchestration make it, if not a sibling, then a distant cousin to the classic "Disarm".

[4] Similarly, CraveOnline compared it to the most acoustic aspects of their Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness album and said that "...The song is catchy but with a injection of prog-rock that keeps it from collapsing on itself.