 "Pitchfork"s Sean Fennessey also responded favorably, commending the "pure precision" of Girl Talk's sampling and naming the album the "soundtrack of the summer" for 2006.Robert Christgau, in his "Consumer Guide" column for "MSN Music", called "Night Ripper" "the best mash-up album since 2002's "The Best Bootlegs in the World Ever"" and compared Girl Talk to prominent samplers DJ Shadow and The Avalanches, "only with obvious samples rather than obscure ones".While stating that the album's reliance on samples of popular music makes it "lose its appeal after a few spins", Marisa Brown of AllMusic wrote that Girl Talk's "ability to draw from a myriad of musical sources" allows "Night Ripper" to "appeal to anyone who's heard the radio... in the past few years."