Music critics from The Observer gave Drastic Fantastic five stars, stating the album was "bursting with so many hits that Tunstall's comic-book life is about to go stratospheric".
The music critics at The Observer gave Drastic Fantastic a perfect score of five stars, proclaiming that the album was "teeming with so many chart successes that Tunstall's fictional life is on the verge of exploding into the stratosphere.