Response
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| The A.V. Club | (favorable) |
| Pitchfork Media | 7.7/10 |
| The Tech (newspaper) | (favorable) |
Because it was not released conventionally, few professional reviews of the album were published, but those that surfaced were unanimously positive. The A.V. Club called it an "artistic high" for the band. Pitchfork Media opined that the band sounded "energized and at a creative peak". Allmusic labeled it a "winner". The Michigan Daily also published a review calling the music "some of the best Pumpkins material to date".
In April 2010, Billy Corgan commented on the album's reception, stating that: "I think the fan response at the time was very positive, as the fans who were around at the time seemed to like Machina II better than Machina I. That said, Machina I is proving now to be the more influential part of the work for many of the younger bands that I've talked to. At the time I saw (releasing the album for free) as a one-time thing. I never thought we would see a near collapse of the music business and its dominant control on how music reaches people."
Read more about this topic: Machina II/The Friends & Enemies Of Modern Music
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