[3] At Consequence of Sound, Nina Corcoran graded this album a C, calling it "12 lackadaisical, echoing, and occasionally adolescent songs" with songwriting that "lacks any real focus", but she also praised Liz Harris' vocals and key tracks that work.

[1] Justin Lowman gave this release a 9 out of 10 at Drowned in Sound, stating that the mix of genres and obscure lyrics "works to beautiful effect", making "a very strong album, one that I found myself wanting to listen to over and over again".

[4] Peter Carden of Mojo called this music "a vaporised take on shoegaze pop" that is "swathed in reverb and cotton candy hiss", making "a record that will erase the day-to-day" and garnered 3 out of 5 stars.

[5] Editors at Pitchfork scored this release 6.9 out of 10 and critic Zoe Camp wrote that "Upon cursory listens, the band's debut album, The Original Faces, appears to be an accessible, if noisy, entry into the shoegaze-pop canon.

[8] Writing for Uncut, John Dale scored The Original Faces an 8 out of 10, for being "very lovely indeed", with "sweet, fragile pop melodies [that] are drenched in an enveloping haze of guitar fuzz" that recalls Black Tambourine.