"Moving away from the melodious constraints of song," Ang Song Ming writes in his review, ""Dark Folke" veers towards ambience – an almost asphyxiating kind", calling it the band's "Kid A". Noah Berlatsky remarked in Metro Pulse on the album's combination of freak folk, drony psychedelia and near-metal. Christopher Lim of "The Business Times" called "Dark Folke" "A rich sonic feast.. a diving pool that begs to have its depths plumbed", while Christopher Toh of "Today" awarded the album 4 out of 5, writing that "Album No 4 for The Observatory is a great excursion into what making music in Scandinavia in the wintertime sounds like...the album is wonderfully hypnotic."