 Media response to "People Get Ready" was generally positive.AllMusic writer Jeremy Salmon awarded the album four out of five stars, praising the band's "retro" sound which he compares to that of MC5 and The Stooges.Describing the style of the album as "garagey, proto-punk rock", Salmon concluded that "People Get Ready" "is an album that ... still can make one excited that music like this is still extant in the world".