[2] Writing at Clash Music, Jay Fullarton scored this album an 8 out of 10, ending "this record doesn't sound like a hellscape though, it somehow chases the ecstasy high his debut set and exceeds it in the process".

[4] Writing for Pitchfork, Dash Lewis scored this release a 7.1 out of 10 and called this "[Joseph] Thornalley's most crowd-pleasing project to date, even if it isn't his most cohesive".

[5] Ted Davis of Paste scored this album a 7.2 out of 10, praising the music's range as it "casually flips between the heady and accessible sides of the Vegyn coin".

[6] In Resident Advisor, Reid BG stated that this music "reads more like a slow-burning novel, with sustained, fleshed-out ideas" and characterized this as "an impressive, mainstream-baiting heel turn from the leftfield UK producer that occasionally pulls too many punches"[7] A feature on Vegyn for Rolling Stone included Sam Davies calling this album "45 minutes of lovely electronic music that will soothe your ears in much the way a good meme can soothe the eyes after a few minutes of reading the news".

[8] In Spin, Margaret Farrell gave this album an A, writing that it is "both melancholic and euphoric" with music that spans "from jazzy and transcendental to glitchy and trip-hop symphonic"[9] Variety's Jem Aswad considered The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions "heavenly electro-pop" and compared to Vegyn's previous work, older material has "never been quite as focused or finely honed as it is here".