Bugland

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	85/100[5]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[6]
Far Out	[7]
Laut.de	[8]
Pitchfork	8.3/10[9]

On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized score out of 100 to ratings from mainstream publications, the album received a weighted mean score of 85 based on four reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".^[5] Sadie Sartini Garner of Pitchfork awarded Bugland the accolade Best New Music, noting that the album is fully aware of "living in a memory" and calling it the "perfect album for our current shoecraze" as well as "unlike any other record alongside". She described it as containing a "litter of sound", with "so much happening" at the same time that nearly all of it "commands your attention".^[9]

Kerstin Kratochwill of Laut.de described the album as "heavy" and comparable to noise acts such as Medicine and My Bloody Valentine. She noted that it evokes a desire to be fully immersed in its "futuristic sonic force", which expands into space with influences from jam music and black metal.^[8] In a more moderate review, Kelly Scanlon of Far Out acknowledged that there were "definitely low points throughout the album" but praised it as "a tight embrace" that encourages listeners to keep going "even when the haze becomes a bit too much".^[7]