The album received a five-star rating from Louder Than War, whose reviewer Ged Babey noted it as "an old-fashioned sounding record made by grey-haired veterans. But artistically it transcends any record made by anyone else in the same age-bracket, anyone else from the Creation/pre-C86 era, and any indie/guitar band full-stop."[1]
In a four-star review for AllMusic, Tim Sendra opined, the album "changes out youthful angst for grown-up angst as it dials back the guitar noise, couches the vocals in harmonies, and mostly sticks to tracks that amble along gracefully instead of charging ahead willy-nilly."[2]
Kieron Tyler of the Arts Desk rated the album four stars and commented, "The ten new songs on Everything Stays The Same sound reassuringly like the Loft, albeit with a toughened-up sound."[3]
Writing for PopMatters, John Bergstrom assigned it a rating of seven and described it as "a remarkably accomplished, confident debut, yet one that suggests there is still more of the story to be told."[4]
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