Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The A.V. Club | (B) |
| Robert Christgau | (A-) |
| The New York Times | (favorable) |
| NME | (6/10} |
| Paste | (8.6/10) |
| Pitchfork Media | (7.7/10) |
| PopMatters | |
| Rolling Stone | |
The New York Times gave the album a positive review, including the album on its Critics Choice list of the week, only taking issue with the group’s no-fi pre-Saturday Night Live material. Rolling Stone gave the album three out of five stars, calling it "the new frontier of 'White and Nerdy'." All Music gave the album four out of five stars, calling it a "fully committed comedy album...that's just as hip, inventive, and inappropriate as digital shorts." Billboard magazine said the album shows the band's "deft handle on musical parody." The New York Observer remarked that the album "manages to avoid most of the pratfalls inherent within the genre," and called the music "wildly catchy," although it did acknowledge that "most of it has been heard before" making it less desirable to buy. Hip Hop DX said that "as a comedic display, Incredibad comes pretty close to impeccable; as a proper album it's less rewarding," and concluded by saying, "It’s nice that someone finally cares enough about music to mock it properly."
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