Entertainment Weekly (No. 806, pp.63-4) - "[F]rancis can fit absurd numbers of words into tidy verses bursting with rage..." - Grade: B+
Uncut (p.99) - 4 stars out of 5 - "[The album] cements his reputation for fast, witty, lyrically dense politico-personal rhymes."
Alternative Press (p.94) - 4 stars out of 5 - "A HEALTHY DISTRUST bristles with rock rawness....He does sound like a future star."
The Wire (pp.57-58) - "The record makes you marinate in Francis's omni-loathing, and the effect is one of catharsis rather than exhaustion."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.106) - 3 stars out of 5 - "A HEALTHY DISTRUST turns his scouring insight upon America's recent history, the response of a vulnerable, impassioned, imperfect man."