Jonathan Keefe, writing for Slant Magazine, called the album "endlessly fascinating" but concluded that "even armed with a cheat sheet from Wikipedia and a desire to figure out the significance of every last hair clipper and gunshot, the album never engages as anything more than an academic exercise.
In his review for Slant Magazine, Jonathan Keefe characterized the album as "endlessly fascinating," yet he found it "never truly engaging even when armed with a Wikipedia cheat sheet and a desire to decode every detail about hair clipper and gunshot references."