 He praised "Skin Deep" as "one of the finest songs of this band's first nine years.Whopping hooks, great backing vocals, and even sharp lyrics on plastic people, L.A.'s biggest export.Of the rest, only the jerky instrumental 'Son-O-Qua' is skippable; 'Skin Deep' and the other five tracks clock in with some of the meatiest pop since...well, since the Descendents' previous LP."