 Critical response to "Beware" was generally favorable and positive.At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 74 ("Generally favorable reviews"), based on 32 professional reviews, and the average user rating for the album is 8.5 (out of 10) based on 12 users' votes.Ben Ratliff of "The New York Times" gave a positive review of the album, writing