 On the Metacritic website, which aggregates reviews from critics and assigns a normalised rating out of 100, "Last Evenings On Earth" received a score of 73.The Arts Desk described the album as "relentless" with "forward momentum and a trance-like fervour".Last Evenings On Earth was called "as damn close to a masterpiece as you can get" by Cultured Vultures, who also wrote that the album showed "a band at the height of both command and vision, merging sonics and aesthetics into something uniquely and officially theirs".