Space Is Only Noise

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.9/10[2]
Metacritic	86/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Clash	9/10[5]
The Guardian	[6]
The Irish Times	[7]
Mojo	[8]
Pitchfork	8.4/10[9]
PopMatters	9/10[10]
Q	[11]
Resident Advisor	4.5/5[12]
Uncut	[13]

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Space Is Only Noise received an average score of 86, based on 15 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[3] Resident Advisor named it album of the year[14] and Pitchfork placed the album at number 20 on its list of the "Top 50 albums of 2011".[15] Pitchfork also placed the song "Space Is Only Noise If You Can See" at number 44 on its list "The Top 100 Tracks of 2011".[16] In 2019, Pitchfork ranked the album at number 148 on their list of "The 200 Best Albums of the 2010s".[17]

The original track listing features "I Got a Woman" as track 6, but this track was later removed from the album due to an uncleared sample.[18] Subsequently, the original 14-track version of the album was pulled from stores and replaced with a 13 track version, the same one which can be found on streaming services.