Vega Intl. Night School received generally positive reviews from music critics. At
Metacritic, which assigns a
normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an
average score of 79, based on 17 reviews. Praising "the most rewarding of danceable peaks" in the album's middle section, Calum Slingerland of
Exclaim! wrote, "Palomo's four-year absence has yielded a flashy, fun record with welcome diversity". After noting that "there's plenty of
Tom Tom Club and
Blondie in the album's bubbly
disco", Heather Phares of
AllMusic said, "In its own way,
VEGA INTL. Night School is just as immersive as Neon Indian's previous work and even more impressionistic, with a flamboyance that makes it a captivating standout within his own work as well as his contemporaries".
Rolling Stone reviewer Renato Pagnani said, "Palomo peels back the layers of
psychedelia that have sometimes obscured his work in the past, striving for a directness that results in the most crystallized – and accessible – version of his aesthetic yet". Sasha Geffen of
Consequence of Sound praised "the sequence of 'Slumlord' into 'Slumlord's Re-lease' and 'Techno Clique'", declaring that it "proves to be
Night School's centerpiece and the most concrete realization yet of Neon Indian as pure electronic music".
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