sentences:  In a review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine called "Big Bam Boom" "a sprawling and diffuse album" and "a bigger, noisier record than its predecessors, with its rhythms smacking around in an echo chamber and each track built on layers of synthesizers and studio effects".In Erlewine's opinion, it was a disappointment coming after a trio of albums that had very few flaws.Erlewine also criticized the production on the album saying that "it obscures the dark undercurrent to many of the tunes, several of which seem to foreshadow the duo's long hiatus following this record".