Metacritic summarised the critical response to
Plum as "generally favorable." Todd Dedman of
Beats Per Minute wrote that Widowspeak's "sound remains a woozy delight, but with a more direct and purposeful feel to it," but felt that the title track is one of the weakest on the album.
Loud and Quiet wrote: "there's a rumbling, phantom thread in the strata of
Plum that elevates their fifth effort to a vantage point above their previous releases," and compared Hamilton's vocals to
Hope Sandoval of
Mazzy Star. In a review for
Pitchfork, Julia Gray wrote that
Plum "doesn’t take enough risks to really widen Widowspeak's scope." ==Track listing==