Brad Mills of AllMusic called the album "surprising, analytical, darkness, mystery, lyricism, and jealous."
Reviewing Float retrospectively in 2025, Dash Lewis of Pitchfork described it as "the road map for everything [Aesop Rock would] go on to do", highlighting the "overwhelming" feel of the densely packed lyrics, the paranoid mood of the album, and the incorporation of stylistic techniques like internal rhyme and "hyper-detailed observations".