"... the album is a smoothly executed pitch deck of exactly what will perform on pop radio in 2016, and Puth (...) will do just fine ... Nine Track Mind is demoralizingly well-constructed as a means to an end, and it's because of Puth's considerable abilities, and not in spite of them, that the album induces such despair ... The album's emotional range covers the spectrum from light longing to light infatuation, contributing to the overall sense that Nine Track Mind is aimed exclusively at hairlessness: children, prepubescents, the discomfitingly waxed".