According to the review aggregator Metacritic, The Future Is Your Past received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 69 out of 100 from five critic scores.[2] Writing for Clash Music, Nick Roseblade gave this album an 8 out of 10, writing that "every song is absolutely fantastic" and calling it the band's best album in many years and continuing that it "feels like the start of a golden age of The Brian Jonestown Massacre".[1] John Aizlewood of Mojo scored this release 3 out of 5 stars, praising individual tracks, but complaining that the album contains filler.[3] An 8.0 out of 10 was given by The Spill Magazine's Ljubinko Zivkovic, stating that the songs "sound like a band at their most potent".[4] Dan Gourlay of Under the Radar wrote that this album "embraces a multitude of styles and genres without ever allowing itself to be pigeonholed by any particular one" and rated it an 8 out of 10.[5]
