 Writing for thefourohfive.com, Heather Steele agreed, saying that ""Earth Division sees them completely lose their trademark urgency and instead take a more uniform sense of silence"".Steele however was more positive, giving the EP a score of 8/10 and writing that it is the ""most splendid of snapshots to demonstrate just how wide-ranging their music is and just what they are still capable of"".Drowned in Sound writer Michael Brown concluded that the four songs are ""totally different, yet just as essential as the album from which they were excluded"", and said that if Mogwai were to make an acoustic album ""it certainly wouldn’t be the worst decision they’ve ever made"".