Rolling Stone - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n LP determined to conjure kinetic joy while staring down our present cultural fright show - and which is more potent for it."

Uncut - "It's a big, bold, entertainingly disruptive blast of a record with a mirror-ball lure, refracting everything from Motown to early '80s disco and funk, boom bap, '90s piano house and contemporary R&B..."

Magnet - "Tired of having her political message lost in universes of sound junk and lyrical abstractions, she streamlines both here into danceable nuggets of unmistakable self-criticism."

Mojo (Publisher) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Reflective, restless, fiercely engaged, it feels like it's in a constant process of rethinking and remodelling, slicing off bits of musical flesh and slapping them back on elsewhere as it dips and bounces along the street."

NME (Magazine) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n art-pop world that zings with colour and dances to its own clattering beat."

Paste (magazine) - "PRIVATE LIFE is as socially conscious as albums come....A textured, beat-heavy record, and not just on the bottom end."

Clash (Magazine) - "Tune-Yards have since become a progressively richer, more explicitly political proposition -- but in no way less infectiously joyful."