At
Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics,
The Young Machines received an average score of 73, based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Kenyon Hopkin of
AllMusic praised the album's "lush
IDM-powered
indie pop." Kilian Murphy of
Stylus Magazine wrote: "An intriguing mixture of laptop-electronica and emotional indie song writing, this is engagingly quirky stuff." ==Track listing==