The album so far has a score of 75 out of 100 from Metacritic based on "generally favorable reviews". "The Aquarian Weekly" gave it an A and called it "a very heavyweight fight for a listener to get through." Punknews.org gave it all five stars and said, "Leave the hating to the real playa hatas, like Buc Nasty and Silky Johnson, because "Frances The Mute" will blow your mind. So give up your qualms about how pretentious this is, and how overindulgent, because given the chance, you're in for a hell of a ride." "Drowned in Sound" gave it a perfect score of ten and called it "a compulsory purchase." "Spin" gave it an A− and said it "explores an explosive groove "Comatorium" only implied." "Kludge" gave it a score of ten out of ten and called it a "multi-layered album that can be enjoyed through multiple artistic perspectives" which "works beautifully". Playlouder gave it four-and-a-half stars out of five and said, "Miraculously the lyrics never "sound" like the pompous shite they undoubtedly are. They fit the music and make the whole picture even more laughably and absurdly brilliant." In 2005, the album was ranked number 440 in "Rock Hard" magazine's book of "The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time".