"nme" named "salad days" the second best album of 2014, while the tracks "chamber of reflection" and "passing out pieces" placed at numbers 10 and 26 respectively on their list of the top 50 tracks of 2014. "salad days" was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 polaris music prize. the album was the most played record across canadian community radio in april 2014 and the second most played album of 2014, behind chad vangaalen's "shrink dust", as tracked by the national campus and community radio association's national charts, !earshot. in october 2019, "salad days" placed at no. 21 on "happy mag"'s list of "the 25 best psychedelic rock albums of the 2010s".