Moonbuilding 2703 AD has received positive reviews from music critics, with some saying it is the band's best album in over 20 years. At
Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 16 reviews, which indicates "Generally favorable reviews". Gavin Miller of
Drowned in Sound in his 8/10 review said that
Moonbuilding 2703 AD is "an album heaving with ideas, but just coherent enough to stick together as one piece of work" and went on to say that the album is a "great little re-introduction to all things Orb." Benjamin Aspray of
Slant Magazine starts off his 3.5 stars out of 5 review by saying "With
Moonbuilding 2703 AD, the Orb makes a full circle back to the long-form conceptual terrain of 1991's game-changing
Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld and its follow-up,
U.F.Orb. The album sustains a progressive composition over four distinct parts, forgoing instant gratification for slow builds and subtle variations, culminating in the Orb's most cohesive work in ages." He ends the review for the album saying "It's never quite a tour de force, but as a union of the Orb's heady roots with their spiritual ascendants' minimalist ethos, the album is a consistently satisfying groove machine, and a worthy entry to the upper ranks of the Orb canon." ==Track listing==