 Robert Christgau, writing in MSN Music, remarked that the album contained "one song so irresistible it makes you think the other tracks are songs too, which sometimes they are," later assigning it a two-star honorable mention rating.By the end of 2007, it was ranked by Metacritic as the tenth best-reviewed album of the year.James Murphy stated that he would like the album to be in the top 40 on the U.S.