 Another positive review came from AllMusic, which said that "these songs, as diverse as they are, are utterly disciplined sonically.They have all the tension and dynamic, all the immediacy of yore, but the mix is spacious, and Chino Moreno's vocals soar above it".A less enthusiastic, although positive, review came from "Rolling Stone"'s Christian Hoard, who compared the band's "space-rock overlays" with Radiohead, but pointed out that "The songwriting never quite comes together, but this is a metal record that gets by as much on sonic tricks as monster riffs".