Exclaim! wrote that "for those with adventurous taste who aren't turned off by laptops or tomfoolery, Dead Drunk definitely has what you're looking for: fresh, fun frequencies to melt your mind or zone out to."[1]AllMusic described the album as "a confusion of electronic loops in machine room ambience, with the humanizing element of often distorted, sometimes almost rhythmic and melodic voices."[4]The Stranger wrote that the band "engineer every sound granule to subvert your equilibrium and induce teeming, irrational thoughts."[3]