[2] The album received widespread critical acclaim[citation needed] for its dense, complex songwriting and unique sound, featuring on a number of end-of-year lists by music publications.
Ygg huur has a highly technical, dense and complex style of metal, that has been described as "[branching] out kaleidoscopically, intricate riffs alternate frantically, from insanely fast tremolos to dissonant squeals, and rhythms float and bounce spastically without any anchors".
Pitchfork was positive in its assessment of the album, writing, "Ygg Huur is more vivid, vexing, and meticulous than most of what the band's old peers still call black metal—a sentence Krallice no longer need to share.
Joyce added, "They’re all the way through the looking glass on this one, presenting a knobbly vision of the genre that stems and branches out like a particularly warped weeping willow, but given the opiated grandeur of what came between this is a particularly oxygenated version of their blown-out screams and squelches.
"[8] Sputnikmusic staff writer Elijah K. wrote, "The result is truly interesting metal record that mixes a flurry of modern influences into one tight little package."