Reviewing the 2000 reissue David Peschek of "Mojo" called "Sulk" "their florid, hysterical masterpiece" and observed, "This remains extraordinarily potent music, a repository of the otherness contemporary pop so lacks". Simon Reynolds stated in "Uncut" that ""Sulk" is so lovely it's harrowing... Associates crammed all the derangement and texture-saturated voluptuousness of psychedelia into pop". David Quantick's review of the deluxe edition in 2016 observed that ""Sulk" appears at first to be a pop album—and there are few greater pop singles than 'Party Fears Two'—but its glossy sound and high budget disguise the fact that it's actually very odd".