[1] The band's guitarist, Horror Illogium, has described the album as "the evolution by sickness, the advancement by mutation where all has become clear, the third eye open, think tanks in construct.
"[6] In their review of the album, The New York Times noted that Vexovoid represents a further incremental development in Portal's sound, writing that "Each one reinvents the guitar tone; what you hear on “Vexovoid,” from the guitarists Horror Illogium and Aphotic Mote, is clearer and more elegant, a little less scoured and crackly.
"[7] Pitchfork noted in their review the unsettling, dissonant character of the album, writing that "the expected shapes have been mutated and multiplied into orders so strange they seem surreal.
Songs that, for the first minute, appeared to have but one aim and direction find a half-dozen new missions and vectors in a five-minute span."
[14] Writing for Decibel Magazine, Rod Smith concurred, noting that, with Vexovoid, "Portal retire the idiosyncratic production style that had people mentioning vacuum cleaners and wind tunnels...The added clarity imparts a new sense of urgency" to the band's approach.
They went on to write that "It’s Portal’s ability to invoke the strange aeons beyond death that makes their music so uncannily horrific.