[16] Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine affirmed that this is "a Mudhoney album through and through", which contains "no outright surprises sonically, but beneath the roar it's hard not to admire how their perennial piss-takes are subtly deepening and how their saturated superfuzz always sounds so good.

[9] NME's Thom Gibbs claimed that the band was "putting the fun in grunge since 1988, Mudhoney drink from the familiar well of Iggy on their ninth album with outrageously enjoyable results.

"[11] Andrew Perry of Q found that the band are "pissed off, over-amped, just the right side of sloppy, shorn of the brass grafted into recent outings", which is "exactly like themselves.

"[13] At Uncut, Peter Watts told that the release "is a riot of dirty [...] yet never cluttered" that contains "Detroit riffs and Mark Arm's laconically enrage vocals.

"[14] However, Matt Melis of Consequence of Sound stated that Mudhoney is "maturing without growing up," but this only "works here on a handful of tracks", which is because the album is "cleaning up the band’s early fuzz without sacrificing their trademark youthful irreverence.