Nothing Important

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	78/100[5]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[6]
The Guardian	[7]
The Line of Best Fit	[8]
Loud and Quiet	9/10[9]
musicOMH	[10]
NME	7/10[1]
Pitchfork	7.8/10[2]
The Quietus	(favourable)[11]

Nothing Important has received some acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 78 based on ten reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews".^[5] The Wire listed it on second position of its "Releases of the Year" 2014.^[12]

In his review of the album for AllMusic, critic Marc Deming said that "the fact that one man with a guitar and some occasional overdubs can make something this powerful and challenging is truly impressive...Nothing Important's best moments clearly belie its title."^[6] Guardian reviewer Michael Hann wrote that "this is a record that unsettles and subverts. Whether it's a masterpiece or a fraud will become apparent with the passage of time."^[7]