As of 2017, review aggregate website Acclaimed Music listed "Person Pitch" as the seventh most acclaimed album of 2007, as well as the 349th most acclaimed album of all time. It was named the top album of 2007 by "Pitchfork" and placed at number 13 on "The Village Voice"s Pazz & Jop year-end critics' poll. A "Pitchfork" year-end survey included praise and recognition from musicians such as Bradford Cox, The Tough Alliance, Diplo, St. Vincent, Black Dice, Christopher Bear of Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend, Yeasayer and Dan Snaith, all of whom ranked "Person Pitch" as one of the best albums of 2007. "Pitchfork" would later name "Person Pitch" the ninth best album of the decade. In 2016, Grimes named the album in her list "5 albums that changed my life". She said that "suddenly all music clicked into place and seemed so simple and easy. I was pretty much able to spontaneously write songs immediately after listening to this album once."