review from allmusic.com by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Now that Dinosaur Jr. is an actual working band and not a one-off reunion, they can settle into the business of being a band: touring regularly and cutting records where they subtly push at the boundaries of what defines the band’s sound, as they do on 2012’s I Bet On Sky. By some measures, the quietest record of their new millennium reunion, I Bet On Sky rarely roars with abandon — oddly, it’s Lou Barlow who brings the noise with the appropriately named “Rude” and “Recognition,” but J Mascis does kick in the glorious breakneck rocker “Pierce the Morning Rain” — with the band indulging in different textures and tempos, opening up their music in a way the concentrated Farm didn’t quite manage.