In his best-albums-of-the-year write-up for The Daily Dot, critic Ramon Ramirez wrote that "(EMA) wrote the year’s best record about the Internet. . . . What stars here is her centralized, astute songwriting. EMA followed up 2011’s critically acclaimed Past Life Martyred Saints with a navel-gazing passion project, and the best thing she’s done." Rolling Stone wrote in its own best-of-the-year note that "Erika M. Anderson made the best Nineties album of 2014 (if any of us were worried about technology and surveillance taking over our lives 20 years ago). Her follow-up to 2011's awesome Past Life Martyred Saints pulses, clangs and simmers—it's unsettling one moment, soothing the next and always a smartly satisfying listen."
