 Strew complimented "Pictures" and "Lentil", the latter of which shined through the "fog of elongated syllables and cut consonants".Popmatters' Mike Schiller felt the instrumentation was "robotic" and found Sia's vocal manipulation and bending of vowels "infuriating", even unintelligible at times.Schiller did, however, favor her vocal tone and found the power of her voice "occasionally transcendent".