 A review in "Pitchfork" stated, While the band may have struggled in the past to reconcile their post-hardcore roots with their art-rock ambitions*,* more often than not, "IX" marks the spot.In "MXDWN", Elliot Greiner wrote, For a band that started out in post-punk and somehow wandered into the feathery territory of art-rock, "IX" is a mediocre answer to a career’s worth of solid material.While not terrible, it is a far shot from all right, and an even farther shot from (some of) what they’ve put out in the past.