"Person Pitch" was met with almost unanimously positive reviews from music critics. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 based on professional critic reviews, the album received an 87, indicating "universal acclaim". Writing in "The Observer", Simon Reynolds described the album's sound as "tribal, ecstatic yet eerie, brimming with child-like wonder," and felt that Lennox successfully "pulls off the trick of being simultaneously poppy and abstract". Kevin O'Donnell of "Rolling Stone" felt that the album "proves he's a first-rate solo artist," and described the album as "a marvelous, hazy trip full of Beach Boys-inspired psychedelia." Leah Greenblatt of "Entertainment Weekly" described the album as a "lovely, trippy kaleidoscope of sound." Mark Richardson of "Pitchfork" felt that Noah Lennox's use of pop melodies gives "Person Pitch" "an appeal that extends beyond just Animal Collective fans" but that the incorporation of sampled loops and instruments in the production gives the album's songs an "unusual twist".