"Slant Magazine"s Jonathan Keefe praised "Person Pitch" as "a striking, ambitious take on pop music". "Drowned in Sound" writer Richard MacFarlane complimented Lennox's "masterful" production on "Person Pitch", stating that "these psychedelic hymns and schizophrenic nursery rhymes sound unreal, otherworldly." Phillip Buchan of "PopMatters" called the album the "most sonically satisfying statement to emerge yet from the Collective", though he was less complimentary towards its lyrics, which he felt lacked a "representational capacity" to "show us anything outside our selves." Retrospectively, Fred Thomas of AllMusic credits "Person Pitch" as the album where "the wildly different places Lennox would take his experiments truly found a voice of their own", standing as "a perfectly executed statement for Lennox, and in at least some circles of indie rock, a musical revelation."