 "Tone Glow" also put it at number nine on their 30 Best K-pop Songs of 2016 list, stating that its chipper "heart b-b-beats" and arcade noises grant the song a bright sheen.However, Chester Chin of the Malaysian news site "The Star" felt that the single and the album was somewhat a disappointment after the "brilliant experimental vibes" of their last EP "The Velvet", which was released in the same year.He commented that the song was "a fun and glossy dance-pop number" with "infectious hooks and bubbly rhythms" but claimed that the album's tracks "lacked the edge and quirks" of their other singles such as "Ice Cream Cake" and "Dumb Dumb".